UK National Lottery Thunderball #141

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 16th February 2002:

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       9.3%
5               £5,000          22      £110,000       4.1%
4+T/ball          £250         181       £45,250       1.7%
4                 £100       2,990      £299,000      11.2%
3+T/ball           £20       4,893       £97,860       3.6%
3                  £10      77,488      £774,880      28.9%
2+T/ball           £10      42,740      £427,400      16.0%
1+T/ball            £5     134,733      £673,665      25.2%
Totals                     263,048    £2,678,055     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             3.0% rise    £5,022,298   

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       02        27       9       36       3        5        3 
2nd       18        27       0       27       3     Never       3 
3rd       27        16       0       16      15     Never      15 
4th       14        22       7       29      20        3        3 
5th       04        24      15       39       8       13        8 
T/ball    13        21      10       31       8       23        8 
Total     78       137      41      178      57      326       40
Avg.      13.0      22.8     6.8     29.7     9.5     54.3      6.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T5 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £10.18. One in every 19.1 tickets won a prize (=5.24% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 8 wins totalling £70.
• The 39th winning number appearance of the number 4 has moved it two clear of the rest at the summit of the appropriate frequency table.
• Ticket sales rather surprisingly exceeded £5m for this draw - the first time that had happened for 21 months. This draw also marked an outright record sixth consecutive week of sales increases.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 15th August 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #142 (Saturday 23rd February 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #140 (Saturday 9th February 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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