UK National Lottery Thunderball #83

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 6th January 2001:

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       1.8%
4+T/ball          £250         244       £61,000       2.7%
4                 £100       2,536      £253,600      11.1%
3+T/ball           £20       5,469      £109,380       4.8%
3                  £10      64,527      £645,270      28.3%
2+T/ball           £10      45,568      £455,680      20.0%
1+T/ball            £5     142,496      £712,480      31.3%
Totals                     260,848    £2,277,410     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             0.3% rise    £4,336,654   

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       32        11       0       11       1     Never       1 
2nd       24        12       0       12       3     Never       3 
3rd       19        13       0       13       1     Never       1 
4th       07         9       6       15      14       16       14 
5th       06        14       5       19       2       11        2 
T/ball    09        14       8       22       4        2        2 
Total     97        73      19       92      25      278       23
Avg.      16.2      12.2     3.2     15.3     4.2     46.3      3.8

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.73. One in every 16.6 tickets won a prize (=6.01% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £30.
• The number 9 has joined the number 11 at the top of the winning number frequency table after its 22nd such appearance.
• This was the first time that all five main numbers were drawn in decending order (i.e. the largest was drawn first through to the smallest being drawn fifth).
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 5th July 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #84 (Saturday 13th January 2001) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #82 (Saturday 30th December 2000) [No jackpot winners]

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