UK National Lottery Thunderball #297

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 17th 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           0            £0       0.0%
5               £5,000           8       £40,000       3.9%
4+T/ball          £250          69       £17,250       1.7%
4                 £100       1,413      £141,300      13.9%
3+T/ball           £20       1,725       £34,500       3.4%
3                  £10      36,157      £361,570      35.4%
2+T/ball           £10      16,327      £163,270      16.0%
1+T/ball            £5      52,550      £262,750      25.7%
Totals                     108,249    £1,020,640     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       07        41      28       69       2        4        2 
2nd       17        34       0       34       7     Never       7 
3rd       30        42       0       42       7     Never       7 
4th       14        44      22       66       1        8        1 
5th       04        51      25       76       3        1        1 
T/ball    01        42      27       69       2        2        2 
Total     73       254     102      356      22      609       20
Avg.      12.2      42.3    17.0     59.3     3.7    101.5      3.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 4 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.43.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £110.
• 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 14th June 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #298 (Saturday 20th December 2003) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #296 (Saturday 13th December 2003) [3 jackpot winners]

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