UK National Lottery Thunderball #37
Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm GMT on Saturday 19th February 2000:
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 10.3%
5 £5,000 12 £60,000 2.5%
4+T/ball £250 133 £33,250 1.4%
4 £100 1,637 £163,700 6.8%
3+T/ball £20 4,734 £94,680 3.9%
3 £10 51,624 £516,240 21.4%
2+T/ball £10 47,868 £478,680 19.8%
1+T/ball £5 163,751 £818,755 33.9%
Totals 269,760 £2,415,305 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Ticket sales 1.9% rise £4,420,881
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 22 9 0 9 3 Never 3
2nd 28 7 0 7 9 Never 9
3rd 25 7 0 7 1 Never 1
4th 29 6 0 6 9 Never 9
5th 16 10 0 10 3 Never 3
T/ball 05 3 5 8 19 5 5
Total 125 42 5 47 44 190 30
Avg. 20.8 7.0 0.8 7.8 7.3 31.7 5.0
Comments:
- The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 3 machine
- The average prize was £ 8.95.
One in every 16.4 tickets won a prize (=6.10% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £10.
- Two numbers at the top of the main number
frequency
table both
appeared in this draw - the numbers 16
(making its 10th appearance) and 22
(making its 9th appearance).
- The number 16 closed the gap to one to the
winning number frequency
table leader
(the number 3) after appearing as such
for the 10th time.
- The number 5) has joined the number
7 at the top of the Thunderball frequency
table after
its 5th appearance as a Thunderball.
- The main number pair
16, 22 has become the first pair to have appeared
four times since the Thunderball lottery began.
- The main number 25 has become only third
such number to have appeared in three
consecutive draws.
It is also the fifth winning number to appear in three
consecutive draws.
- Two ticket combinations
have now won 10 prizes in the 37 Thunderball lotteries to date.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 17th August 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #38 (Saturday 26th February 2000) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #36 (Saturday 12th February 2000) [6 jackpot winners]