UK National Lottery Thunderball #266

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 30th 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      20.7%
5               £5,000           6       £30,000       1.2%
4+T/ball          £250         124       £31,000       1.3%
4                 £100       1,826      £182,600       7.6%
3+T/ball           £20       3,948       £78,960       3.3%
3                  £10      55,867      £558,670      23.1%
2+T/ball           £10      38,948      £389,480      16.1%
1+T/ball            £5     129,054      £645,270      26.7%
Totals                     229,775    £2,415,980     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       18        47       0       47       1     Never       1 
2nd       25        55       0       55       8     Never       8 
3rd       21        44       0       44       5     Never       5 
4th       26        43       0       43       3     Never       3 
5th       24        48       0       48       6     Never       6 
T/ball    03        32      16       48       4        4        4 
Total    117       269      16      285      27     1334       27
Avg.      19.5      44.8     2.7     47.5     4.5    222.3      4.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £10.51.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 13 wins totalling £180.
• 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 26th February 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #267 (Wednesday 3rd September 2003) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #265 (Wednesday 27th August 2003) [5 jackpot winners]

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