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UK National Lottery Thunderball #965
Winning numbers drawn at 10.42pm BST on Wednesday 12th May 2010:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
5+T/ball £500,000 0 £0 0.0%
5 £5,000 4 £20,000 2.1%
4+T/ball £250 44 £11,000 1.1%
4 £100 487 £48,700 5.0%
3+T/ball £20 1,280 £25,600 2.7%
3 £10 17,619 £176,190 18.3%
2+T/ball £10 14,874 £148,740 15.4%
1+T/ball £5 60,722 £303,610 31.5%
T/ball £3 76,926 £230,778 23.9%
Totals 171,956 £964,618 100.0%
The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 6 balls.
Updated Frequencies
Drawn Order Main T/ball Total
1st 21 1 0 1
2nd 32 1 0 1
3rd 24 1 0 1
4th 11 1 0 1
5th 38 1 0 1
T/ball 10 0 1 1
Total 136 5 1 6
Avg. 22.7 0.8 0.2 1.0
Comments:
- The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 2 machine
- The average prize was £ 5.61.
- 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.
- This draw ushered in the first changes
in the Thunderball game since the introduction of the Wednesday draw way back in
October 2002. To summarise, the jackpot
(5+T/ball) is now £500,000, there is a new T/ball-only prize
tier (£3), there are now 39 main balls instead of 34 (more than doubling the odds
of winning the jackpot) and there are three draws a week (Wed, Fri and Sat).
- Because of the additional 5 main balls, frequency statistics have been zeroed in the
table above. In other words, the frequencies now accumulate from draw 965 onwards
rather than from draw 1 onwards. You can, of course, see the "final" old Thunderball's
frequencies here.
- This draw saw the highest ever main ball
(38)
seen in a Thunderball game - one of the 5 new balls added from this draw onwards.
- Sadly, despite heavy advertising and a doubling of the jackpot prize, the top
prize won in this draw was a mere £5,000. It's almost worth betting on how
many draws it will take to see the first £500,000 jackpot win - my guess is
5 draws.
- Prizes won in this draw must be claimed within 180 days i.e. by 5.30pm GMT on Monday 8th November 2010.
Next Thunderball: #966 (Friday 14th May 2010) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #964 (Saturday 8th May 2010) [No jackpot winners]
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