UK National Lottery Thunderball #168

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 24th 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           1      £250,000      11.5%
5               £5,000           8       £40,000       1.8%
4+T/ball          £250         155       £38,750       1.8%
4                 £100       2,041      £204,100       9.4%
3+T/ball           £20       4,321       £86,420       4.0%
3                  £10      55,064      £550,640      25.4%
2+T/ball           £10      37,738      £377,380      17.4%
1+T/ball            £5     124,879      £624,395      28.7%
Totals                     224,207    £2,171,685     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             0.5% rise    £4,126,872   

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       04        29      17       46       3       13        3 
2nd       29        22       0       22       5     Never       5 
3rd       18        33       0       33       1     Never       1 
4th       31        27       0       27       4     Never       4 
5th       14        27      10       37       5       22        5 
T/ball    08        26      11       37       3       15        3 
Total    104       164      38      202      21      554       21
Avg.      17.3      27.3     6.3     33.7     3.5     92.3      3.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T5 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.69. One in every 18.4 tickets won a prize (=5.43% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 10 wins totalling £85.
• The winning number (4) extended its lead to three at the top of appropriate frequency table after its 46th such appearance.
• Six main number pairs have now appeared eight times since the Thunderball began.
• This was the ninth consecutive draw where there was at least one Thunderball jackpot winner, which is an all-time outright record.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 20th February 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #169 (Saturday 31st August 2002) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #167 (Saturday 17th August 2002) [1 jackpot winner]

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