UK National Lottery Thunderball #189

Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm GMT on Wednesday 4th December 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           4       £20,000       2.4%
4+T/ball          £250          58       £14,500       1.7%
4                 £100         773       £77,300       9.3%
3+T/ball           £20       1,776       £35,520       4.3%
3                  £10      24,997      £249,970      30.0%
2+T/ball           £10      16,213      £162,130      19.5%
1+T/ball            £5      54,620      £273,100      32.8%
Totals                      98,441      £832,520     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             1.0% rise    £2,030,457   

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       10        23      11       34       1       29        1 
2nd       32        26       0       26       9     Never       9 
3rd       33        28       0       28       6     Never       6 
4th       24        29       0       29       4     Never       4 
5th       30        26       0       26       9     Never       9 
T/ball    12        27      12       39       3       12        3 
Total    141       159      23      182      32      797       32
Avg.      23.5      26.5     3.8     30.3     5.3    132.8      5.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T8 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.46. One in every 20.6 tickets won a prize (=4.85% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £90.
• This was the fifth consecutive Thunderball draw where the jackpot wasn't won, which has never happened before.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 2nd June 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #190 (Saturday 7th December 2002) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #188 (Saturday 30th November 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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