UK National Lottery Thunderball #171

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 14th September 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       9.9%
5               £5,000          17       £85,000       3.4%
4+T/ball          £250         231       £57,750       2.3%
4                 £100       2,703      £270,300      10.7%
3+T/ball           £20       5,639      £112,780       4.5%
3                  £10      61,620      £616,200      24.4%
2+T/ball           £10      43,978      £439,780      17.4%
1+T/ball            £5     138,444      £692,220      27.4%
Totals                     252,633    £2,524,030     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             0.2% fall    £4,072,104   

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       18        35       0       35       1     Never       1 
2nd       28        32       0       32       5     Never       5 
3rd       06        26       8       34       9        1        1 
4th       02        31      13       44       8        6        6 
5th       08        28      11       39       2        3        2 
T/ball    04        29      18       47       3       16        3 
Total     66       181      50      231      28      368       18
Avg.      11.0      30.2     8.3     38.5     4.7     61.3      3.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.99. One in every 16.1 tickets won a prize (=6.20% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £105. This is the outright highest number of prior wins for a Thunderball jackpot ticket to date.
• The number 4 has stretched its lead at the top of the winning number frequency table to three after its 47th such appearance.
• The number 4 also has a lead of three over the rest in the Thunderball frequency table thanks to its 18th appearance as a Thunderball.
• One ticket combination has now won 26 prizes in the 171 Thunderball lotteries to date.
• This was only the second time that all six winning numeers were even.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 13th March 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #172 (Saturday 21st September 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #170 (Saturday 7th September 2002) [2 jackpot winners]

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