UK National Lottery Thunderball #18
Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 9th October 1999:
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 8 £40,000 2.3%
4+T/ball £250 87 £21,750 1.2%
4 £100 1,281 £128,100 7.3%
3+T/ball £20 3,522 £70,440 4.0%
3 £10 49,982 £499,820 28.5%
2+T/ball £10 36,440 £364,400 20.8%
1+T/ball £5 126,254 £631,270 35.9%
Totals 217,574 £1,755,780 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Ticket sales 1.3% fall £4,625,648
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 05 3 1 4 6 8 6
2nd 33 5 0 5 5 Never 5
3rd 32 5 0 5 2 Never 2
4th 22 3 0 3 1 Never 1
5th 06 3 2 5 1 7 1
T/ball 13 2 3 5 8 3 3
Total 111 21 6 27 23 72 18
Avg. 18.5 3.5 1.0 4.5 3.8 12.0 3.0
Comments:
- The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 1 machine
- The average prize was £ 8.07.
One in every 21.3 tickets won a prize (=4.70% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- The numbers 32 and 33 are now the joint
leaders of the main number frequency
table with five such appearances
each.
- The number 13 has become the third number to have
appeared
three times as the Thunderball to date.
- The main number triple 05, 06, 33 has become the first to
appear twice in the Thunderball lottery (the first time was
10 weeks ago).
- This was the first time that two main numbers (6 and
22) have appeared in the same two
consecutive draws.
- The draw had the lowest number of 4+Thunderball (under 100 for the first
time) and total
winners of any Thunderball draw to date.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 6th April 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #19 (Saturday 16th October 1999) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #17 (Saturday 2nd October 1999) [1 jackpot winner]