UK National Lottery Thunderball #193

Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm GMT on Wednesday 18th 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           9       £45,000       4.9%
4+T/ball          £250          61       £15,250       1.7%
4                 £100         975       £97,500      10.7%
3+T/ball           £20       1,807       £36,140       3.9%
3                  £10      28,669      £286,690      31.4%
2+T/ball           £10      16,439      £164,390      18.0%
1+T/ball            £5      53,617      £268,085      29.4%
Totals                     101,577      £913,055     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             2.0% rise    £2,049,458   

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       11        28      11       39       2       12        2 
2nd       20        30       0       30       2     Never       2 
3rd       15        22       0       22       3     Never       3 
4th       26        28       0       28       7     Never       7 
5th       09        33      16       49       2        7        2 
T/ball    12        29      13       42       1        4        1 
Total     93       170      40      210      17      602       17
Avg.      15.5      28.3     6.7     35.0     2.8    100.3      2.8

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.99. One in every 20.2 tickets won a prize (=4.96% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £50.
• This draw had a record ticket sales for a Wednesday Thunderball game, which also lead to the highest number of prize winners in the 5-match and 3-match categories.
• This was the first time ever that five consecutive Wed-to-Wed or Sat-to-Sat draws hadn't resulted in any jackpot winners.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 16th June 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #194 (Saturday 21st December 2002) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #192 (Saturday 14th December 2002) [1 jackpot winner]

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