UK National Lottery Thunderball #261

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm BST on Wednesday 13th 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           4    £1,000,000      40.8%
5               £5,000          19       £95,000       3.9%
4+T/ball          £250         158       £39,500       1.6%
4                 £100       1,163      £116,300       4.7%
3+T/ball           £20       3,492       £69,840       2.8%
3                  £10      30,498      £304,980      12.4%
2+T/ball           £10      31,076      £310,760      12.7%
1+T/ball            £5     103,559      £517,795      21.1%
Totals                     169,969    £2,454,175     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       03        31      14       45      34       12       12 
2nd       21        43       0       43       2     Never       2 
3rd       22        37       0       37       7     Never       7 
4th       12        38      18       56       3        3        3 
5th       33        33       0       33      34     Never      34 
T/ball    07        30      24       54       9        7        7 
Total     98       212      56      268      89      805       65
Avg.      16.3      35.3     9.3     44.7    14.8    134.2     10.8

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £14.44.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £75.
• 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 9th February 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #262 (Saturday 16th August 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #260 (Saturday 9th August 2003) [2 jackpot winners]

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