UK National Lottery Thunderball #317

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 25th February 2004:

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      32.5%
5               £5,000           5       £25,000       1.6%
4+T/ball          £250          70       £17,500       1.1%
4                 £100         961       £96,100       6.2%
3+T/ball           £20       2,209       £44,180       2.9%
3                  £10      29,192      £291,920      19.0%
2+T/ball           £10      20,830      £208,300      13.5%
1+T/ball            £5      71,516      £357,580      23.2%
Totals                     124,785    £1,540,580     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       27        48       0       48       1     Never       1 
2nd       12        46      20       66      10       11       10 
3rd       21        51       0       51       3     Never       3 
4th       22        46       0       46       1     Never       1 
5th       30        45       0       45       7     Never       7 
T/ball    04        52      28       80      19        4        4 
Total    116       288      48      336      41     1283       26
Avg.      19.3      48.0     8.0     56.0     6.8    213.8      4.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T8 in the Excalibur 2 machine
• The average prize was £12.35.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £90.
• 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.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 23rd August 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Thunderball: #318 (Saturday 28th February 2004) [2 jackpot winners]
  Previous Thunderball: #316 (Saturday 21st February 2004) [3 jackpot winners]

  

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