UK National Lottery Thunderball #197

Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm GMT on Wednesday 1st January 2003:

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           8       £40,000       3.8%
4+T/ball          £250          91       £22,750       2.2%
4                 £100       1,254      £125,400      11.9%
3+T/ball           £20       2,085       £41,700       3.9%
3                  £10      33,993      £339,930      32.2%
2+T/ball           £10      18,817      £188,170      17.8%
1+T/ball            £5      59,681      £298,405      28.2%
Totals                     115,929    £1,056,355     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.7% fall    £2,289,982   

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       18        38       0       38       2     Never       2 
2nd       23        24       0       24       5     Never       5 
3rd       22        31       0       31      23     Never      23 
4th       27        28       0       28       3     Never       3 
5th       08        31      13       44      12        9        9 
T/ball    12        29      14       43       5        4        4 
Total    110       181      27      208      50      801       46
Avg.      18.3      30.2     4.5     34.7     8.3    133.5      7.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.11. One in every 19.8 tickets won a prize (=5.06% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £150.
• This draw had the highest number of 4-match and 3-match prize winners for a Wednesday Thunderball game.
• Three ticket combinations have now won 29 prizes in the 197 Thunderball draws to date.
• This was only the second time that five consecutive Thunderball draws failed to result in a jackpot winner.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 30th June 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #198 (Saturday 4th January 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #196 (Saturday 28th December 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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