UK National Lottery Thunderball #253

Winning numbers drawn at 8.28pm BST on Wednesday 16th July 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      26.1%
5               £5,000          22      £110,000       5.7%
4+T/ball          £250         142       £35,500       1.8%
4                 £100       1,948      £194,800      10.2%
3+T/ball           £20       3,112       £62,240       3.2%
3                  £10      40,434      £404,340      21.1%
2+T/ball           £10      24,317      £243,170      12.7%
1+T/ball            £5      73,474      £367,370      19.2%
Totals                     143,451    £1,917,420     100.0%

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        45      22       67      11       19       11 
2nd       28        43       0       43       3     Never       3 
3rd       12        36      17       53       5       15        5 
4th       09        39      19       58       4        5        4 
5th       24        45       0       45       3     Never       3 
T/ball    11        38      16       54      16       18       16 
Total     88       246      74      320      42      563       42
Avg.      14.7      41.0    12.3     53.3     7.0     93.8      7.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T1 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £13.37.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £245.
• From Saturday 12th July 2003 onwards, Camelot has completely refused to issue per-draw sales figures for any of their individual games, despite continuously doing so for more than 8 years prior to that date. They blamed the media for only concentrating on the main Lotto game sales (which have been falling steadily for years), which seems to be a poor excuse to me.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 12th January 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Thunderball: #254 (Saturday 19th July 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
  Previous Thunderball: #252 (Saturday 12th July 2003) [2 jackpot winners]

  

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