UK National Lottery Thunderball #259

Winning numbers drawn at 8.28pm BST on Wednesday 6th 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           0            £0       0.0%
5               £5,000           7       £35,000       3.5%
4+T/ball          £250          61       £15,250       1.5%
4                 £100         824       £82,400       8.3%
3+T/ball           £20       2,079       £41,580       4.2%
3                  £10      26,592      £265,920      26.6%
2+T/ball           £10      20,565      £205,650      20.6%
1+T/ball            £5      70,383      £351,915      35.3%
Totals                     120,511      £997,715     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        40       0       40       2     Never       2 
2nd       28        44       0       44       6     Never       6 
3rd       21        42       0       42       7     Never       7 
4th       30        34       0       34       2     Never       2 
5th       29        34       0       34       1     Never       1 
T/ball    11        39      18       57       4        3        3 
Total    138       233      18      251      22     1298       21
Avg.      23.0      38.8     3.0     41.8     3.7    216.3      3.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.28.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £105.
• 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 2nd February 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #260 (Saturday 9th August 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #258 (Saturday 2nd August 2003) [1 jackpot winner]

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