UK National Lottery Thunderball #148

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 6th April 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      10.8%
5               £5,000          24      £120,000       5.2%
4+T/ball          £250         125       £31,250       1.4%
4                 £100       2,294      £229,400      10.0%
3+T/ball           £20       3,823       £76,460       3.3%
3                  £10      64,899      £648,990      28.2%
2+T/ball           £10      35,072      £350,720      15.2%
1+T/ball            £5     119,188      £595,940      25.9%
Totals                     225,426    £2,302,760     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             3.4% fall    £4,999,948   

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       05        20      12       32       4       11        4 
2nd       14        23      10       33       7        2        2 
3rd       15        14       0       14      17     Never      17 
4th       32        19       0       19       4     Never       4 
5th       20        24       0       24       5     Never       5 
T/ball    02        27      11       38       7        1        1 
Total     88       127      33      160      44      458       33
Avg.      14.7      21.2     5.5     26.7     7.3     76.3      5.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £10.22. One in every 22.2 tickets won a prize (=4.51% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £40.
• The rarest main number (15) turned up in this draw, allowing it to share the basement of the main and winning number frequency tables with the number 34 - both have 14 appearances apiece.
• The main number 11 has now failed to appear for 33 consecutive draws, tying it for second place in the all-time absentee list.
• The ticket sales for this draw were the closest to a million boundary to date (only £52 short of £5m - the previous record holder was £317 over £4m).
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 3rd October 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #149 (Saturday 13th April 2002) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #147 (Saturday 30th March 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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