UK National Lottery Thunderball #490

Winning numbers drawn at 8.10pm BST on Saturday 22nd 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           9       £45,000       2.5%
4+T/ball          £250         105       £26,250       1.5%
4                 £100       1,694      £169,400       9.5%
3+T/ball           £20       3,623       £72,460       4.1%
3                  £10      55,627      £556,270      31.2%
2+T/ball           £10      34,155      £341,550      19.2%
1+T/ball            £5     114,253      £571,265      32.0%
Totals                     209,466    £1,782,195     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       16        88       0       88       9     Never       9 
2nd       34        63       0       63       1     Never       1 
3rd       05        69      50      119       6        7        6 
4th       03        66      28       94       4        2        2 
5th       06        82      24      106       5       12        5 
T/ball    13        61      32       93      11        3        3 
Total     77       429     134      563      36     1004       26
Avg.      12.8      71.5    22.3     93.8     6.0    167.3      4.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T8 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.51.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 24 wins totalling £175.
• 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 20th April 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Thunderball: #491 (Wednesday 26th October 2005) [No jackpot winners]
  Previous Thunderball: #489 (Wednesday 19th October 2005) [No jackpot winners]

  

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