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UK National Lottery Thunderball #87
Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 3rd February 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 1 £250,000 9.1%
5 £5,000 15 £75,000 2.7%
4+T/ball £250 250 £62,500 2.3%
4 £100 2,490 £249,000 9.1%
3+T/ball £20 6,498 £129,960 4.7%
3 £10 64,743 £647,430 23.5%
2+T/ball £10 54,853 £548,530 19.9%
1+T/ball £5 157,677 £788,385 28.7%
Totals 286,527 £2,750,805 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Ticket sales 1.3% rise £4,406,906
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 19 14 0 14 4 Never 4
2nd 31 17 0 17 1 Never 1
3rd 04 14 9 23 16 8 8
4th 20 13 0 13 1 Never 1
5th 11 18 5 23 6 13 6
T/ball 04 14 9 23 16 8 8
Total 89 90 23 113 44 290 28
Avg. 14.8 15.0 3.8 18.8 7.3 48.3 4.7
Comments:
- The draw used ball set T1 in the Excalibur 1 machine
- The average prize was £ 9.60.
One in every 15.4 tickets won a prize (=6.50% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £55.
- The numbers 4 and 11
have joined the number 9 at the top of the
winning number frequency
table
after their 23rd such appearances.
- The 9th appearance of the number 4 as a Thunderball
has brought it to within one of the Thunderball frequency
table leader
(the number 1).
- Eleven main number pairs
have now appeared five times since the Thunderball draws
began.
- Four main number triples
have now appeared three times to date in the history of the
Thunderball lottery.
- For the first time ever, there was at least one winner in each of
the main, Thunderball and Extra draws on a Saturday.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 2nd August 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #88 (Saturday 10th February 2001) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #86 (Saturday 27th January 2001) [1 jackpot winner]
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