UK National Lottery Thunderball #180

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 2nd November 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      11.7%
5               £5,000           0            £0       0.0%
4+T/ball          £250         133       £33,250       1.6%
4                 £100       1,338      £133,800       6.2%
3+T/ball           £20       4,232       £84,640       3.9%
3                  £10      48,066      £480,660      22.4%
2+T/ball           £10      43,280      £432,800      20.2%
1+T/ball            £5     145,950      £729,750      34.0%
Totals                     243,000    £2,144,900     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      2.6% rise    £4,251,331     71.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     28.2% rise    £1,726,336     28.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      8.9% rise    £5,977,667   

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        30       8       38       1       10        1 
2nd       32        25       0       25       2     Never       2 
3rd       30        25       0       25       2     Never       2 
4th       05        24      14       38       3       18        3 
5th       27        26       0       26       4     Never       4 
T/ball    05        24      14       38       3       18        3 
Total    105       154      36      190      15      586       15
Avg.      17.5      25.7     6.0     31.7     2.5     97.7      2.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.83. One in every 17.5 tickets won a prize (=5.72% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £180.
• For the first time ever, there were no 5-match winners in a Thunderball draw and it was also the first time there were less 5-match winners than 5+Thunderball winners.
• This was the first time that the total number of prize winners was an exact multiple of 1,000.
• There have now been 200 jackpot-winning Thunderball tickets in the 180 draws to date.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 1st May 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #181 (Wednesday 6th November 2002) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #179 (Wednesday 30th October 2002) [1 jackpot winner]

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