UK National Lottery Thunderball #183

Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm GMT on Wednesday 13th 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           2      £500,000      31.6%
5               £5,000           6       £30,000       1.9%
4+T/ball          £250         109       £27,250       1.7%
4                 £100       1,165      £116,500       7.3%
3+T/ball           £20       2,637       £52,740       3.3%
3                  £10      28,479      £284,790      18.0%
2+T/ball           £10      22,110      £221,100      14.0%
1+T/ball            £5      70,164      £350,820      22.2%
Totals                     124,672    £1,583,200     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             5.6% rise    £1,969,707   

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       02        32      14       46      12        4        4 
2nd       33        27       0       27       4     Never       4 
3rd       21        26       0       26       5     Never       5 
4th       25        41       0       41      10     Never      10 
5th       17        23       0       23       7     Never       7 
T/ball    09        31      15       46       6       29        6 
Total    107       180      29      209      44      765       36
Avg.      17.8      30.0     4.8     34.8     7.3    127.5      6.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T7 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £12.70. One in every 15.8 tickets won a prize (=6.33% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £105.
• The number 25 has stretched its lead at the top of the main number frequency table to five after its 41st such appearance.
• This draw had record ticket sales for a Wednesday Thunderball draw. In fact, Wednesday sales have risen every week since the Wednesday Thunderball draw began.
• This was the first Wednesday Thunderball draw to have more than one jackpot winner and it actually registered a record number of winners for a Wednesday draw in all tiers (including the total number of winners of course).
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 12th May 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #184 (Saturday 16th November 2002) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #182 (Saturday 9th November 2002) [2 jackpot winners]

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