UK National Lottery Thunderball #19
Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 16th 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 1 £250,000 11.5%
5 £5,000 12 £60,000 2.8%
4+T/ball £250 114 £28,500 1.3%
4 £100 2,255 £225,500 10.4%
3+T/ball £20 3,830 £76,600 3.5%
3 £10 64,680 £646,800 29.8%
2+T/ball £10 34,067 £340,670 15.7%
1+T/ball £5 108,372 £541,860 25.0%
Totals 213,331 £2,169,930 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Ticket sales 0.9% fall £4,583,784
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 31 4 0 4 7 Never 7
2nd 20 5 0 5 5 Never 5
3rd 22 4 0 4 1 Never 1
4th 25 2 0 2 10 Never 10
5th 17 5 0 5 2 Never 2
T/ball 02 1 1 2 3 Never 3
Total 117 21 1 22 28 114 28
Avg. 19.5 3.5 0.2 3.7 4.7 19.0 4.7
Comments:
- The draw used ball set T1 in the Excalibur 3 machine
- The average prize was £10.17.
One in every 21.5 tickets won a prize (=4.65% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included no wins.
- Four main numbers have now
appeared
five times in the 19 Thunderball lotteries to date.
- Only three numbers have failed to
appear as the
Thunderball in any of the draws so far - the numbers
1, 11 and 12.
- The main number 22 has become the
first such number to appear in three
consecutive
draws. It's also only the second winning number
to appear
in three consecutive draws.
- This draw had the narrowest main number
range (31-17=14) so far.
- The numbers of 2+Thunderball, 1+Thunderball and
total
winners were the lowest ever.
- Ticket sales fell for the
third consecutive week, which hasn't happened before.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 13th April 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #20 (Saturday 23rd October 1999) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #18 (Saturday 9th October 1999) [No jackpot winners]