UK National Lottery Thunderball #262

Winning numbers drawn at 8.53pm BST on Saturday 16th 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           2      £500,000      19.5%
5               £5,000          13       £65,000       2.5%
4+T/ball          £250         145       £36,250       1.4%
4                 £100       1,986      £198,600       7.7%
3+T/ball           £20       4,936       £98,720       3.9%
3                  £10      61,304      £613,040      23.9%
2+T/ball           £10      43,485      £434,850      16.9%
1+T/ball            £5     124,549      £622,745      24.2%
Totals                     236,420    £2,569,205     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        32      15       47       1       13        1 
2nd       23        34       0       34       7     Never       7 
3rd       12        39      18       57       1        4        1 
4th       11        40      18       58       7        3        3 
5th       22        38       0       38       1     Never       1 
T/ball    03        32      15       47       1       13        1 
Total     74       215      66      281      18      557       14
Avg.      12.3      35.8    11.0     46.8     3.0     92.8      2.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T6 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £10.87.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 13 wins totalling £90.
• 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 12th February 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #263 (Wednesday 20th August 2003) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #261 (Wednesday 13th August 2003) [4 jackpot winners]

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