UK National Lottery Thunderball #186

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 23rd 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           0            £0       0.0%
5               £5,000          10       £50,000       2.4%
4+T/ball          £250         148       £37,000       1.7%
4                 £100       1,672      £167,200       7.9%
3+T/ball           £20       4,635       £92,700       4.4%
3                  £10      55,890      £558,900      26.4%
2+T/ball           £10      45,234      £452,340      21.3%
1+T/ball            £5     151,891      £759,455      35.9%
Totals                     259,480    £2,117,595     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.5% rise    £4,435,859     68.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      3.2% rise    £2,032,505     31.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      2.0% rise    £6,468,364   

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       23        21       0       21       2     Never       2 
2nd       25        42       0       42       3     Never       3 
3rd       12        27      11       38       1        9        1 
4th       29        24       0       24       5     Never       5 
5th       26        27       0       27       4     Never       4 
T/ball    09        31      16       47       9        3        3 
Total    124       172      27      199      24      756       18
Avg.      20.7      28.7     4.5     33.2     4.0    126.0      3.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.16. One in every 17.1 tickets won a prize (=5.85% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £105.
• The number 25 stretched its lead to six at the top of the main number frequency table after its 42nd such appearance.
• Ticket sales, aided by the current Thunderball TV ad campaign starring Billy Connolly, have risen for 8 consecutive draws, which is an outright all-time record.
• If you add last Wednesday's sales to this Saturday's sales, they actually exceed - by £48,131 - the previous highest ever weekly Thunderball sales (which were, in fact, from the very first week).
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 22nd May 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #187 (Wednesday 27th November 2002) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #185 (Wednesday 20th November 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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