UK National Lottery Thunderball #205

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 29th 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           3      £750,000      41.0%
5               £5,000          10       £50,000       2.7%
4+T/ball          £250          75       £18,750       1.0%
4                 £100       1,210      £121,000       6.6%
3+T/ball           £20       2,314       £46,280       2.5%
3                  £10      34,813      £348,130      19.1%
2+T/ball           £10      18,959      £189,590      10.4%
1+T/ball            £5      60,814      £304,070      16.7%
Totals                     118,198    £1,827,820     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.1% rise    £2,201,280   

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       04        35      21       56       3       20        3 
2nd       26        31       0       31       7     Never       7 
3rd       32        28       0       28       1     Never       1 
4th       18        39       0       39       8     Never       8 
5th       02        38      14       52       4       26        4 
T/ball    13        28      15       43      14       27       14 
Total     95       199      50      249      37      688       37
Avg.      15.8      33.2     8.3     41.5     6.2    114.7      6.2

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T7 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £15.46. One in every 18.6 tickets won a prize (=5.37% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 13 wins totalling £95.
• The two most common winning numbers, 2 and 4, appeared for the 52nd and 56th time respectively.
• Four ticket combinations have now won 29 prizes in the 205 Thunderball draws to date.
• Four main number pairs have now appeared nine times in the history of the Thunderball lottery.
• This was the first time there had been more than two jackpot winners of a Wednesday draw. There were also a record number of 3-match winners for a Wednesday draw.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 28th July 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #206 (Saturday 1st February 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #204 (Saturday 25th January 2003) [1 jackpot winner]

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