UK National Lottery Thunderball #258

Winning numbers drawn at 8.50pm BST on Saturday 2nd August 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           1      £250,000      10.1%
5               £5,000          15       £75,000       3.0%
4+T/ball          £250         216       £54,000       2.2%
4                 £100       2,623      £262,300      10.6%
3+T/ball           £20       5,137      £102,740       4.2%
3                  £10      70,696      £706,960      28.5%
2+T/ball           £10      41,080      £410,800      16.6%
1+T/ball            £5     123,027      £615,135      24.8%
Totals                     242,795    £2,476,935     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       12        37      18       55       5       20        5 
2nd       16        48       0       48       3     Never       3 
3rd       29        33       0       33      11     Never      11 
4th       18        45       0       45      13     Never      13 
5th       25        54       0       54       6     Never       6 
T/ball    12        37      18       55       5       20        5 
Total    112       254      36      290      43     1072       43
Avg.      18.7      42.3     6.0     48.3     7.2    178.7      7.2

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T1 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £10.20.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £135.
• 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 29th January 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #259 (Wednesday 6th August 2003) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #257 (Wednesday 30th July 2003) [2 jackpot winners]

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