UK National Lottery Thunderball #293

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 3rd December 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      23.4%
5               £5,000          16       £80,000       3.7%
4+T/ball          £250         218       £54,500       2.5%
4                 £100       1,730      £173,000       8.1%
3+T/ball           £20       4,786       £95,720       4.5%
3                  £10      39,355      £393,550      18.4%
2+T/ball           £10      34,234      £342,340      16.0%
1+T/ball            £5     100,078      £500,390      23.4%
Totals                     180,419    £2,139,500     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       02        53      18       71       3       22        3 
2nd       10        33      20       53      30       21       21 
3rd       16        55       0       55       4     Never       4 
4th       24        52       0       52      10     Never      10 
5th       19        46       0       46       1     Never       1 
T/ball    07        39      28       67       9        1        1 
Total     78       278      66      344      57      923       40
Avg.      13.0      46.3    11.0     57.3     9.5    153.8      6.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T7 in the Excalibur 2 machine
• The average prize was £11.86.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 23 wins totalling £170.
• 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 31st May 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #294 (Saturday 6th December 2003) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #292 (Saturday 29th November 2003) [5 jackpot winners]

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