UK National Lottery Thunderball #206

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 1st February 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      20.3%
5               £5,000          22      £110,000       4.4%
4+T/ball          £250         125       £31,250       1.3%
4                 £100       2,909      £290,900      11.8%
3+T/ball           £20       3,389       £67,780       2.7%
3                  £10      70,502      £705,020      28.6%
2+T/ball           £10      29,103      £291,030      11.8%
1+T/ball            £5      94,401      £472,005      19.1%
Totals                     200,453    £2,467,985     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.0% fall    £4,428,999     66.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.1% rise    £2,201,280     33.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.0% rise    £6,630,279   

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       17        25       0       25       3     Never       3 
2nd       25        45       0       45       8     Never       8 
3rd       03        27      11       38       3       12        3 
4th       19        30       0       30       2     Never       2 
5th       34        21       0       21       6     Never       6 
T/ball    01        31      17       48      19        6        6 
Total     99       179      28      207      41      842       28
Avg.      16.5      29.8     4.7     34.5     6.8    140.3      4.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T8 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £12.31. One in every 22.1 tickets won a prize (=4.53% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £75.
• The main number 25 has stretched its lead to five at the top of the main number frequency table after its 45th such appearance.
• Meanwhile, the number 34 at the other end of the same table has brought itself to within one of the rest of the pack after its 21st main number appearance. It is also now only three adrift at the bottom of the winning number frequency table.
• There have now been over 50 million Thunderball prize winners in total since the Thunderball draws began.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 31st July 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #207 (Wednesday 5th February 2003) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #205 (Wednesday 29th January 2003) [3 jackpot winners]

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