UK National Lottery Thunderball #257

Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 30th 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      26.4%
5               £5,000          16       £80,000       4.2%
4+T/ball          £250         149       £37,250       2.0%
4                 £100       1,657      £165,700       8.8%
3+T/ball           £20       3,339       £66,780       3.5%
3                  £10      36,476      £364,760      19.3%
2+T/ball           £10      26,885      £268,850      14.2%
1+T/ball            £5      81,679      £408,395      21.6%
Totals                     150,203    £1,891,735     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       19        39       0       39      13     Never      13 
2nd       09        40      19       59       4        9        4 
3rd       30        33       0       33       1     Never       1 
4th       24        46       0       46       4     Never       4 
5th       14        38      19       57      13       25       13 
T/ball    06        44      14       58       1       14        1 
Total    102       240      52      292      36      819       36
Avg.      17.0      40.0     8.7     48.7     6.0    136.5      6.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T7 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £12.59.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £95.
• 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 draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 26th January 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #258 (Saturday 2nd August 2003) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #256 (Saturday 26th July 2003) [No jackpot winners]

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