UK National Lottery Thunderball #254

Winning numbers drawn at 8.02pm BST on Saturday 19th 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      15.7%
5               £5,000          17       £85,000       2.7%
4+T/ball          £250         272       £68,000       2.1%
4                 £100       2,134      £213,400       6.7%
3+T/ball           £20       7,022      £140,440       4.4%
3                  £10      57,619      £576,190      18.1%
2+T/ball           £10      59,827      £598,270      18.7%
1+T/ball            £5     201,694    £1,008,470      31.6%
Totals                     328,587    £3,189,770     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       27        37       0       37       7     Never       7 
2nd       06        43      13       56       5       11        5 
3rd       17        30       0       30       8     Never       8 
4th       34        28       0       28       9     Never       9 
5th       22        36       0       36       8     Never       8 
T/ball    07        30      23       53       2       18        2 
Total    113       204      36      240      39     1045       39
Avg.      18.8      34.0     6.0     40.0     6.5    174.2      6.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.71.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £90.
• 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 week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 15th January 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Thunderball: #255 (Wednesday 23rd July 2003) [1 jackpot winner]
  Previous Thunderball: #253 (Wednesday 16th July 2003) [2 jackpot winners]

  

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