UK National Lottery Thunderball #487

Winning numbers drawn at 10.42pm BST on Wednesday 12th October 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           6       £30,000       2.5%
4+T/ball          £250          84       £21,000       1.7%
4                 £100       1,466      £146,600      12.2%
3+T/ball           £20       2,490       £49,800       4.1%
3                  £10      40,562      £405,620      33.7%
2+T/ball           £10      21,651      £216,510      18.0%
1+T/ball            £5      67,121      £335,605      27.8%
Totals                     133,380    £1,205,135     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       19        71       0       71       3     Never       3 
2nd       07        82      43      125       1        1        1 
3rd       04        84      35      119       2       35        2 
4th       20        72       0       72       5     Never       5 
5th       17        55       0       55       9     Never       9 
T/ball    13        61      31       92       8       14        8 
Total     80       425     109      534      28     1511       28
Avg.      13.3      70.8    18.2     89.0     4.7    251.8      4.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T5 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.04.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 21 wins totalling £170.
• 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 10th April 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Thunderball: #488 (Saturday 15th October 2005) [2 jackpot winners]
  Previous Thunderball: #486 (Saturday 8th October 2005) [3 jackpot winners]

  

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