UK National Lottery Thunderball #178

Winning numbers drawn at 12.15am BST on Saturday 26th 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           9       £45,000       2.9%
4+T/ball          £250          86       £21,500       1.4%
4                 £100       1,297      £129,700       8.3%
3+T/ball           £20       3,128       £62,560       4.0%
3                  £10      43,428      £434,280      27.9%
2+T/ball           £10      30,974      £309,740      19.9%
1+T/ball            £5     111,118      £555,590      35.6%
Totals                     190,040    £1,558,370     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.0% fall    £4,142,048     75.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)                   £1,346,528     24.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     31.1% rise    £5,488,576   

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       06        28       8       36       6        8        6 
2nd       21        25       0       25       4     Never       4 
3rd       34        18       0       18       8     Never       8 
4th       32        24       0       24       9     Never       9 
5th       30        24       0       24       6     Never       6 
T/ball    13        26      14       40       5       15        5 
Total    136       145      22      167      38      735       38
Avg.      22.7      24.2     3.7     27.8     6.3    122.5      6.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T5 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.20. One in every 21.8 tickets won a prize (=4.59% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £75.
• The 18th appearance of the rarest main number, 34, has allowed it to share the basement of the main number frequency table with the numbers 7 and 15. It only shares the basement with the number 15 (with 18 appearances each) at the bottom of the winning number frequency table.
• Surprisingly, ticket sales remained above £4m, despite the dilution effect that was expected because of the new Wednesday Thunderball draw. Note, however, that the combined Wednesday and Saturday sales this week still only placed 6th in the all-time Thunderball weekly sales list.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 24th April 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #179 (Wednesday 30th October 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #177 (Wednesday 23rd October 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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