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UK National Lottery Thunderball #7
Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 24th July 1999:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| 5+T/ball | £250,000 | 2 | £500,000 | 17.9% |
| 5 | £5,000 | 15 | £75,000 | 2.7% |
| 4+T/ball | £250 | 169 | £42,250 | 1.5% |
| 4 | £100 | 2,256 | £225,600 | 8.1% |
| 3+T/ball | £20 | 4,948 | £98,960 | 3.5% |
| 3 | £10 | 65,442 | £654,420 | 23.5% |
| 2+T/ball | £10 | 45,159 | £451,590 | 16.2% |
| 1+T/ball | £5 | 148,510 | £742,550 | 26.6% |
| Totals | 266,501 | £2,790,370 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 7.2% fall | £4,752,743 | |
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 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | Never | 6 |
| 2nd | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Never | Never | Never |
| 3rd | 28 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | Never | 6 |
| 4th | 33 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | Never | 5 |
| 5th | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | Never | Never | Never |
| T/ball | 09 | 0 | 2 | 2 | Never | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 141 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 38 | 36 | 32 |
| Avg. | 23.5 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 1.7 | 6.3 | 6.0 | 5.3 |
Comments:
- The draw used ball set T1 in the Excalibur 3 machine
- The average prize was £10.47.
One in every 17.8 tickets won a prize (=5.61% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included no wins.
- The third row
of the main playslip board
has become the first to have seen a total
of 10 main numbers drawn on it since the
Thunderball lottery began.
- The number 9 has become the
first number to be drawn as a Thunderball in two
consecutive
draws, which also put it joint top of the Thunderball
frequency table
on two Thunderball appearances along with the number 7.
- The main number pair 28, 31 is the third
such pair to have appeared
twice in the seven draws so far.
- Two ticket combinations
have now won five prizes in the seven Thunderball draws to date.
- When sorted in ascending order, the lowest
main number (18) was the highest to date.
- The sum (132) of the five main
numbers was the highest to date and they also had the lowest
ever range (15). The sum (141) of the six winning numbers was also
the highest ever.
- The numbers of 3+Thunderball, 2+Thunderball, 1+Thunderball
and total prize winners
were all the lowest seen to date.
- Ticket sales divebombed to their
lowest ever - their first time below £5m in fact.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 20th January 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #8 (Saturday 31st July 1999) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #6 (Saturday 17th July 1999) [No jackpot winners]
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