UK National Lottery Thunderball #272

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 20th September 2003:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
5+T/ball      £250,000           4    £1,000,000      31.0%
5               £5,000          24      £120,000       3.7%
4+T/ball          £250         221       £55,250       1.7%
4                 £100       2,546      £254,600       7.9%
3+T/ball           £20       4,979       £99,580       3.1%
3                  £10      59,848      £598,480      18.5%
2+T/ball           £10      41,845      £418,450      13.0%
1+T/ball            £5     136,369      £681,845      21.1%
Totals                     245,836    £3,228,205     100.0%

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       13        36      17       53      22       53       22 
2nd       26        44       0       44       6     Never       6 
3rd       08        40      19       59       5        9        5 
4th       30        37       0       37       1     Never       1 
5th       16        51       0       51       2     Never       2 
T/ball    10        32      20       52       9       12        9 
Total    103       240      56      296      45      890       45
Avg.      17.2      40.0     9.3     49.3     7.5    148.3      7.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 3 machine
• The average prize was £13.13.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £110.
• From Saturday 12th July 2003 onwards, Camelot has completely refused to issue per-draw sales figures for any of their individual games, despite continuously doing so for more than 8 years prior to that date. They blamed the media for only concentrating on the main Lotto game sales (which have been falling steadily for years), which seems to be a poor excuse to me.
• Manual draw comments will be available here shortly.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 18th March 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #273 (Wednesday 24th September 2003) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #271 (Wednesday 17th September 2003) [No jackpot winners]

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