UK National Lottery Thunderball #497

Winning numbers drawn at 10.42pm GMT on Wednesday 16th November 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           1      £250,000      17.5%
5               £5,000           9       £45,000       3.1%
4+T/ball          £250          92       £23,000       1.6%
4                 £100       1,385      £138,500       9.7%
3+T/ball           £20       2,337       £46,740       3.3%
3                  £10      36,975      £369,750      25.9%
2+T/ball           £10      20,995      £209,950      14.7%
1+T/ball            £5      68,984      £344,920      24.2%
Totals                     130,778    £1,427,860     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       33        68       0       68      13     Never      13 
2nd       08        72      36      108       5        5        5 
3rd       25        91       0       91       1     Never       1 
4th       07        83      43      126      10       11       10 
5th       16        89       0       89       7     Never       7 
T/ball    14        80      42      122       2        6        2 
Total    103       483     121      604      38     1513       38
Avg.      17.2      80.5    20.2    100.7     6.3    252.2      6.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £10.92.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 33 wins totalling £260.
• 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 15th May 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Thunderball: #498 (Saturday 19th November 2005) [No jackpot winners]
  Previous Thunderball: #496 (Saturday 12th November 2005) [No jackpot winners]

  

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