UK National Lottery Thunderball #146

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 23rd March 2002:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
5+T/ball      £250,000           1      £250,000       9.0%
5               £5,000          35      £175,000       6.3%
4+T/ball          £250         168       £42,000       1.5%
4                 £100       4,229      £422,900      15.1%
3+T/ball           £20       4,293       £85,860       3.1%
3                  £10      86,705      £867,050      31.0%
2+T/ball           £10      36,035      £360,350      12.9%
1+T/ball            £5     118,136      £590,680      21.1%
Totals                     249,602    £2,793,840     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             0.5% rise    £5,199,860   

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 6 balls.

                    Updated Frequencies       Since Last Appeared
Drawn   Order      Main   T/ball   Total    Main   T/ball    Either
1st       26        21       0       21      19     Never      19 
2nd       09        27      13       40       1        3        1 
3rd       03        19       8       27       2       13        2 
4th       16        29       0       29       7     Never       7 
5th       30        17       0       17      15     Never      15 
T/ball    14        22      10       32       5        2        2 
Total     98       135      31      166      49      456       46
Avg.      16.3      22.5     5.2     27.7     8.2     76.0      7.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £11.19. One in every 20.8 tickets won a prize (=4.80% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 8 wins totalling £55.
• The 29th main number appearance of the number 16 has moved it to within four of the frequency table leader (the number 25).
• The number 9 now sits outright top of the winning number frequency table after its 40th appearance as one of the six winning numbers.
• This draw had the third highest number of 4-match and 3-match prize winners ever.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 19th September 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #147 (Saturday 30th March 2002) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #145 (Saturday 16th March 2002) [2 jackpot winners]

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