UK National Lottery Thunderball #279

Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 15th October 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      15.6%
5               £5,000          10       £50,000       3.1%
4+T/ball          £250         147       £36,750       2.3%
4                 £100       1,869      £186,900      11.7%
3+T/ball           £20       3,330       £66,600       4.2%
3                  £10      42,536      £425,360      26.5%
2+T/ball           £10      24,425      £244,250      15.2%
1+T/ball            £5      68,609      £343,045      21.4%
Totals                     140,927    £1,602,905     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       09        41      19       60      22       31       22 
2nd       03        35      17       52       5        2        2 
3rd       19        42       0       42       1     Never       1 
4th       17        32       0       32      11     Never      11 
5th       23        37       0       37       9     Never       9 
T/ball    13        37      18       55       6       60        6 
Total     84       224      54      278      54      930       51
Avg.      14.0      37.3     9.0     46.3     9.0    155.0      8.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £11.37.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £55.
• 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 BST on Monday 12th April 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #280 (Saturday 18th October 2003) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #278 (Saturday 11th October 2003) [1 jackpot winner]

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