UK National Lottery Thunderball #68
Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 23rd September 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 12.4%
5 £5,000 12 £60,000 3.0%
4+T/ball £250 106 £26,500 1.3%
4 £100 2,153 £215,300 10.7%
3+T/ball £20 3,097 £61,940 3.1%
3 £10 64,583 £645,830 32.2%
2+T/ball £10 28,453 £284,530 14.2%
1+T/ball £5 92,866 £464,330 23.1%
Totals 191,271 £2,008,430 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Ticket sales 2.0% fall £4,607,876
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 11 14 4 18 3 10 3
2nd 29 10 0 10 15 Never 15
3rd 25 16 0 16 3 Never 3
4th 33 14 0 14 1 Never 1
5th 28 10 0 10 1 Never 1
T/ball 01 9 7 16 2 7 2
Total 127 73 11 84 25 289 25
Avg. 21.2 12.2 1.8 14.0 4.2 48.2 4.2
Comments:
- The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 1 machine
- The average prize was £10.50.
One in every 24.1 tickets won a prize (=4.15% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £45.
- The 16th appearance of the main number
25 has closed the gap to that frequency
table's leader
(the number 18) to just one.
- The winning number 11 is now joint
top (with the number 4) of the winning
number frequency
table
after its 18th such appearance.
- The number 1 is only the second number
(after the number 5) to have appeared
as a Thunderball
seven times in the 68 Thunderball lotteries to date.
- One ticket combination
has won 14 prizes across all the Thunderball draws so far.
- The jackpot-winning ticket had previously
won 7 prizes (an outright
record) totalling £45 (a joint record).
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 22nd March 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #69 (Saturday 30th September 2000) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #67 (Saturday 16th September 2000) [2 jackpot winners]