UK National Lottery Thunderball #173

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 28th 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           0            £0       0.0%
5               £5,000          19       £95,000       4.8%
4+T/ball          £250         149       £37,250       1.9%
4                 £100       2,707      £270,700      13.8%
3+T/ball           £20       3,580       £71,600       3.6%
3                  £10      69,456      £694,560      35.4%
2+T/ball           £10      31,370      £313,700      16.0%
1+T/ball            £5      96,404      £482,020      24.5%
Totals                     203,685    £1,964,830     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             0.4% rise    £4,047,311   

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       25        40       0       40      14     Never      14 
2nd       27        23       0       23       6     Never       6 
3rd       13        26      13       39      12       10       10 
4th       16        35       0       35       1     Never       1 
5th       18        36       0       36       2     Never       2 
T/ball    14        29      12       41       3        4        3 
Total    113       189      25      214      38      706       36
Avg.      18.8      31.5     4.2     35.7     6.3    117.7      6.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.65. One in every 19.9 tickets won a prize (=5.03% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £180.
• The three most common main numbers, 25, 18 and 16, made their 40th, 36th and 35th appearances respectively.
• Five ticket combinations have now won 26 prizes in the 173 Thunderball draws to date.
• The main number pair 16, 18 has become the first to have made 9 appearances since the Thunderball lottery began.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 27th March 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #174 (Saturday 5th October 2002) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #172 (Saturday 21st September 2002) [1 jackpot winner]

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