UK National Lottery Thunderball #177

Winning numbers drawn at 8.00pm BST on Wednesday 23rd October 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           8       £40,000       5.8%
4+T/ball          £250          54       £13,500       2.0%
4                 £100         752       £75,200      10.9%
3+T/ball           £20       1,536       £30,720       4.4%
3                  £10      22,710      £227,100      32.9%
2+T/ball           £10      12,256      £122,560      17.8%
1+T/ball            £5      36,231      £181,155      26.2%
Totals                      73,547      £690,235     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            67.8% fall    £1,346,528   

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       09        31      14       45       8       23        8 
2nd       05        23      13       36      15       15       15 
3rd       19        27       0       27       2     Never       2 
4th       12        23      11       34      11       13       11 
5th       04        32      19       51       1        3        1 
T/ball    12        23      11       34      11       13       11 
Total     61       159      68      227      48      244       48
Avg.      10.2      26.5    11.3     37.8     8.0     40.7      8.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T6 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.38. One in every 18.3 tickets won a prize (=5.46% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £50.
• This first ever Wednesday Thunderball draw predictably ended up with the worst ever ticket sales to date - less than one third of last Saturday's sales in fact !
• This draw had the outright lowest ever number of prize winners in all categories except 5-match and 5+Thunderball.
• The two most common winning numbers, 4 and 9, turned up for the 51st and 45th times respectively.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 21st April 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #178 (Saturday 26th October 2002) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #176 (Saturday 19th October 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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