UK National Lottery Thunderball #427

Winning numbers drawn at 10.42pm GMT on Wednesday 16th March 2005:

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           3       £15,000       1.2%
4+T/ball          £250          92       £23,000       1.9%
4                 £100         889       £88,900       7.2%
3+T/ball           £20       2,654       £53,080       4.3%
3                  £10      28,379      £283,790      22.9%
2+T/ball           £10      27,529      £275,290      22.2%
1+T/ball            £5      99,878      £499,390      40.3%
Totals                     159,424    £1,238,450     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       26        70       0       70       1     Never       1 
2nd       21        65       0       65       2     Never       2 
3rd       14        65      31       96       3       22        3 
4th       34        48       0       48       2     Never       2 
5th       25        84       0       84       6     Never       6 
T/ball    05        57      43      100       5        6        5 
Total    125       389      74      463      19     1736       19
Avg.      20.8      64.8    12.3     77.2     3.2    289.3      3.2

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 7.77.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 33 wins totalling £250.
• 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 5.30pm BST on Monday 12th September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Thunderball: #428 (Saturday 19th March 2005) [No jackpot winners]
  Previous Thunderball: #426 (Saturday 12th March 2005) [2 jackpot winners]

  

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