UK National Lottery Thunderball #256

Winning numbers drawn at 8.02pm BST on Saturday 26th 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           0            £0       0.0%
5               £5,000           5       £25,000       1.4%
4+T/ball          £250         101       £25,250       1.4%
4                 £100       1,316      £131,600       7.4%
3+T/ball           £20       3,627       £72,540       4.1%
3                  £10      46,169      £461,690      26.1%
2+T/ball           £10      36,807      £368,070      20.8%
1+T/ball            £5     137,544      £687,720      38.8%
Totals                     225,569    £1,771,870     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       30        32       0       32      11     Never      11 
2nd       06        44      13       57       2       13        2 
3rd       15        32       0       32      13     Never      13 
4th       32        35       0       35       8     Never       8 
5th       31        44       0       44       1     Never       1 
T/ball    11        39      17       56       1        3        1 
Total    125       226      30      256      36     1040       36
Avg.      20.8      37.7     5.0     42.7     6.0    173.3      6.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T8 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 7.86.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £125.
• 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.
• Manual draw comments will be available here shortly.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 22nd January 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #257 (Wednesday 30th July 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #255 (Wednesday 23rd July 2003) [1 jackpot winner]

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