UK National Lottery Thunderball #299

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 24th 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           4       £20,000       1.7%
4+T/ball          £250          78       £19,500       1.6%
4                 £100       1,104      £110,400       9.1%
3+T/ball           £20       2,654       £53,080       4.4%
3                  £10      33,671      £336,710      27.9%
2+T/ball           £10      24,951      £249,510      20.6%
1+T/ball            £5      83,817      £419,085      34.7%
Totals                     146,279    £1,208,285     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       19        47       0       47       6     Never       6 
2nd       15        37       0       37       5     Never       5 
3rd       31        49       0       49      13     Never      13 
4th       30        43       0       43       2     Never       2 
5th       23        44       0       44       5     Never       5 
T/ball    08        42      21       63      11       12       11 
Total    126       262      21      283      42     1507       42
Avg.      21.0      43.7     3.5     47.2     7.0    251.2      7.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T7 in the Excalibur 2 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.26.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £95.
• 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 21st June 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #300 (Saturday 27th December 2003) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #298 (Saturday 20th December 2003) [1 jackpot winner]

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