UK National Lottery Thunderball #165

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 3rd August 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           2      £500,000      20.2%
5               £5,000          26      £130,000       5.3%
4+T/ball          £250         142       £35,500       1.4%
4                 £100       2,160      £216,000       8.7%
3+T/ball           £20       3,856       £77,120       3.1%
3                  £10      63,876      £638,760      25.8%
2+T/ball           £10      34,294      £342,940      13.9%
1+T/ball            £5     106,984      £534,920      21.6%
Totals                     211,340    £2,475,240     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             0.8% fall    £4,234,313   

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       27        21       0       21       1     Never       1 
2nd       08        26      10       36      11       12       11 
3rd       04        28      17       45       7       10        7 
4th       16        32       0       32       2     Never       2 
5th       09        29      14       43      12       11       11 
T/ball    02        30      13       43       2        9        2 
Total     66       166      54      220      35      372       34
Avg.      11.0      27.7     9.0     36.7     5.8     62.0      5.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T7 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £11.71. One in every 20.0 tickets won a prize (=4.99% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £140.
• The three most common winning numbers, 4, 2 and 9, appeared for the 45th, 43rd and 43rd times respectively.
• The main number 11 has now failed to appear for an impressive 50 consecutive draws, almost 50% longer than any other main number absentee sequence to date.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 30th January 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #166 (Saturday 10th August 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #164 (Saturday 27th July 2002) [1 jackpot winner]

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