UK National Lottery Thunderball #26
Winning numbers drawn at 7.58pm GMT on Saturday 4th December 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 | 1 | £250,000 | 11.7% |
5 | £5,000 | 27 | £135,000 | 6.3% |
4+T/ball | £250 | 97 | £24,250 | 1.1% |
4 | £100 | 3,267 | £326,700 | 15.3% |
3+T/ball | £20 | 2,885 | £57,700 | 2.7% |
3 | £10 | 70,401 | £704,010 | 32.9% |
2+T/ball | £10 | 24,532 | £245,320 | 11.4% |
1+T/ball | £5 | 79,602 | £398,010 | 18.6% |
Totals | 180,812 | £2,140,990 | 100.0% |
Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
Ticket sales | 2.1% fall | £4,231,828 | |
The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 6 balls.
Comments:
- The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 1 machine
- The average prize was £11.84.
One in every 23.4 tickets won a prize (=4.27% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included no wins.
- 8 of the 34 main numbers are now actually tied on six
appearances each !
- The seventh winning number
appearance of
the number 3 has allowed it to join the
number 12 at the top of the winning number
frequency table.
- One ticket combination
has now won 8 prizes in the 26 Thunderball lotteries to date.
- This draw had the highest number of 5-match
winners ever, but also
the lowest ever number of 2+Thunderball and 1+Thunderball winners.
- This was the first time that four consecutive Thunderball
draws had at least one jackpot winner.
- Ticket sales fell for a record fifth
consecutive week to their lowest level ever.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 1st June 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #27 (Saturday 11th December 1999) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #25 (Saturday 27th November 1999) [1 jackpot winner]