UK National Lottery Thunderball #179

Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm GMT on Wednesday 30th 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           1      £250,000      26.0%
5               £5,000           4       £20,000       2.1%
4+T/ball          £250          41       £10,250       1.1%
4                 £100         711       £71,100       7.4%
3+T/ball           £20       1,396       £27,920       2.9%
3                  £10      22,161      £221,610      23.0%
2+T/ball           £10      13,451      £134,510      14.0%
1+T/ball            £5      45,229      £226,145      23.5%
Totals                      82,994      £961,535     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            28.2% rise    £1,726,336   

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       15        19       0       19      12     Never      12 
2nd       33        26       0       26       9     Never       9 
3rd       12        24      11       35       2        2        2 
4th       06        29       8       37       1        9        1 
5th       11        24      10       34      64       13       13 
T/ball    02        31      14       45       8       14        8 
Total     79       153      43      196      96      396       45
Avg.      13.2      25.5     7.2     32.7    16.0     66.0      7.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £11.59. One in every 20.8 tickets won a prize (=4.81% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 8 wins totalling £50.
• The 19th appearance of the winning number 15 has moved it off the basement of the winning number frequency table, leaving just the number 34 at the bottom.
• The amazing all-time record run of absences of the main number 11 finally came to an end with this draw after a staggering 63 consecutive draws without being chosen.
• This was the first Wednesday Thunderball draw to have a jackpot winner.
• Ticket sales increased impressively tonight to obviously set a new Wednesday sales record.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 28th April 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #180 (Saturday 2nd November 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #178 (Saturday 26th October 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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