UK National Lottery Thunderball #488

Winning numbers drawn at 8.10pm BST on Saturday 15th 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           2      £500,000      19.9%
5               £5,000          22      £110,000       4.4%
4+T/ball          £250         158       £39,500       1.5%
4                 £100       2,238      £223,800       8.9%
3+T/ball           £20       4,127       £82,540       3.3%
3                  £10      58,912      £589,120      23.4%
2+T/ball           £10      36,933      £369,330      14.7%
1+T/ball            £5     120,290      £601,450      23.9%
Totals                     222,682    £2,515,740     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       24        80       0       80      21     Never      21 
2nd       17        56       0       56       1     Never       1 
3rd       08        70      35      105       6       12        6 
4th       12        70      32      102       3        9        3 
5th       29        56       0       56       8     Never       8 
T/ball    03        65      28       93       2       18        2 
Total     93       397      95      492      41     1503       41
Avg.      15.5      66.2    15.8     82.0     6.8    250.5      6.8

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T1 in the Excalibur 5 machine
• The average prize was £11.30.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £120.
• 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 week expired at 5.30pm BST on Thursday 13th April 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Thunderball: #489 (Wednesday 19th October 2005) [No jackpot winners]
  Previous Thunderball: #487 (Wednesday 12th October 2005) [No jackpot winners]

  

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