UK National Lottery Thunderball #480

Winning numbers drawn at 8.10pm BST on Saturday 17th September 2005:

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      13.1%
5               £5,000          10       £50,000       2.6%
4+T/ball          £250          88       £22,000       1.2%
4                 £100       1,403      £140,300       7.3%
3+T/ball           £20       3,335       £66,700       3.5%
3                  £10      51,425      £514,250      26.9%
2+T/ball           £10      31,288      £312,880      16.4%
1+T/ball            £5     110,909      £554,545      29.0%
Totals                     198,459    £1,910,675     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       29        55       0       55      17     Never      17 
2nd       27        74       0       74       2     Never       2 
3rd       26        80       0       80       2     Never       2 
4th       33        66       0       66      10     Never      10 
5th       12        67      32       99       3        1        1 
T/ball    02        81      31      112      19       33       19 
Total    129       423      63      486      53     1954       51
Avg.      21.5      70.5    10.5     81.0     8.8    325.7      8.5

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T8 in the Excalibur 5 machine
• The average prize was £ 9.63.
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 23 wins totalling £160.
• 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.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 5.30pm GMT on Thursday 16th March 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Thunderball: #481 (Wednesday 21st September 2005) [2 jackpot winners]
  Previous Thunderball: #479 (Wednesday 14th September 2005) [No jackpot winners]

  

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