UK National Lottery Thunderball #117

Winning numbers drawn at 8.28pm BST on Saturday 1st September 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           2      £500,000      18.1%
5               £5,000          11       £55,000       2.0%
4+T/ball          £250         161       £40,250       1.4%
4                 £100       1,806      £180,600       6.5%
3+T/ball           £20       5,304      £106,080       3.8%
3                  £10      54,971      £549,710      19.9%
2+T/ball           £10      51,362      £513,620      18.6%
1+T/ball            £5     164,337      £821,685      29.7%
Totals                     277,954    £2,766,945     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             1.4% rise    £4,535,478   

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       06        18       6       24       9       14        9 
2nd       20        17       0       17      14     Never      14 
3rd       28        20       0       20      10     Never      10 
4th       26        18       0       18      21     Never      21 
5th       04        20      12       32       9       12        9 
T/ball    04        20      12       32       9       12        9 
Total     88       113      30      143      72      389       72
Avg.      14.7      18.8     5.0     23.8    12.0     64.8     12.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T1 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.95. One in every 16.3 tickets won a prize (=6.13% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £65.
• The number 4 is now the outright leader of the winning number frequency table after appearing for the 32nd time as one of the six drawn numbers. It has also moved to one behind the leader (the number 7) in the Thunderball frequency table after its 12th appearance as a Thunderball number.
• Five ticket combinations have now won 19 prizes in the 117 Thunderball draws to date.
• This was the first time that all six numbers drawn were even.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 28th February 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #118 (Saturday 8th September 2001) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #116 (Saturday 25th August 2001) [1 jackpot winner]

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