UK National Lottery Thunderball #198

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 4th 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           2      £500,000      22.3%
5               £5,000          10       £50,000       2.2%
4+T/ball          £250         124       £31,000       1.4%
4                 £100       1,728      £172,800       7.7%
3+T/ball           £20       3,341       £66,820       3.0%
3                  £10      55,960      £559,600      24.9%
2+T/ball           £10      32,660      £326,600      14.5%
1+T/ball            £5     107,857      £539,285      24.0%
Totals                     201,682    £2,246,105     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      5.5% rise    £4,473,284     66.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.7% fall    £2,289,982     33.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      3.3% rise    £6,763,266   

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       21        28       0       28       4     Never       4 
2nd       25        44       0       44       3     Never       3 
3rd       26        30       0       30       3     Never       3 
4th       15        23       0       23       5     Never       5 
5th       16        38       0       38       4     Never       4 
T/ball    14        29      14       43      28        7        7 
Total    117       192      14      206      47      997       26
Avg.      19.5      32.0     2.3     34.3     7.8    166.2      4.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T8 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £11.14. One in every 22.2 tickets won a prize (=4.51% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £75.
• The most common main number, 25, turned up yet again to stretch its lead to six at the top of the appropriate frequency table after its 44th such appearance.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 3rd July 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #199 (Wednesday 8th January 2003) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #197 (Wednesday 1st January 2003) [No jackpot winners]

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