UK National Lottery Thunderball #280

Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm BST on Saturday 18th 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           3      £750,000      26.6%
5               £5,000           8       £40,000       1.4%
4+T/ball          £250         129       £32,250       1.1%
4                 £100       1,706      £170,600       6.1%
3+T/ball           £20       4,642       £92,840       3.3%
3                  £10      57,137      £571,370      20.3%
2+T/ball           £10      43,111      £431,110      15.3%
1+T/ball            £5     146,077      £730,385      25.9%
Totals                     252,813    £2,818,555     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       25        58       0       58       4     Never       4 
2nd       03        36      17       53       1        3        1 
3rd       16        52       0       52       8     Never       8 
4th       02        51      18       69       7        9        7 
5th       01        40      23       63       5       13        5 
T/ball    09        41      20       61       1       32        1 
Total     56       278      78      356      26      617       26
Avg.       9.3      46.3    13.0     59.3     4.3    102.8      4.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T6 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £11.15.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £195.
• 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 BST on Thursday 15th April 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #281 (Wednesday 22nd October 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #279 (Wednesday 15th October 2003) [1 jackpot winner]

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