UK National Lottery Thunderball #298

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 20th 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           1      £250,000      11.2%
5               £5,000          11       £55,000       2.5%
4+T/ball          £250         144       £36,000       1.6%
4                 £100       2,502      £250,200      11.2%
3+T/ball           £20       4,072       £81,440       3.6%
3                  £10      63,754      £637,540      28.6%
2+T/ball           £10      35,948      £359,480      16.1%
1+T/ball            £5     112,695      £563,475      25.2%
Totals                     219,127    £2,233,135     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       11        43      22       65      22       15       15 
2nd       04        52      25       77       1        2        1 
3rd       28        52       0       52       2     Never       2 
4th       21        48       0       48       3     Never       3 
5th       24        53       0       53       5     Never       5 
T/ball    02        53      19       72       5       27        5 
Total     90       301      66      367      38      938       31
Avg.      15.0      50.2    11.0     61.2     6.3    156.3      5.2

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T6 in the Excalibur 4 machine
• The average prize was £10.19.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 23 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 17th June 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #299 (Wednesday 24th December 2003) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #297 (Wednesday 17th December 2003) [No jackpot winners]

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