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UK National Lottery Thunderball #40
Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm GMT on Saturday 11th March 2000:
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 | 10.3% |
| 5 | £5,000 | 12 | £60,000 | 2.5% |
| 4+T/ball | £250 | 187 | £46,750 | 1.9% |
| 4 | £100 | 2,069 | £206,900 | 8.6% |
| 3+T/ball | £20 | 5,011 | £100,220 | 4.1% |
| 3 | £10 | 59,145 | £591,450 | 24.4% |
| 2+T/ball | £10 | 44,658 | £446,580 | 18.5% |
| 1+T/ball | £5 | 143,871 | £719,355 | 29.7% |
| Totals | 254,954 | £2,421,255 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 1.2% fall | £4,321,461 | |
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 T3 in the Excalibur 3 machine
- The average prize was £ 9.50.
One in every 16.9 tickets won a prize (=5.90% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included one win of £5.
- The main number 11 became only the third such
number to have appeared in three
consecutive draws. It was
also the 6th winning number to appear in three
consecutive draws.
- This draw marked the first time that
three winning numbers (4, 6 and 11)
had also
appeared in the previous draw.
- Over £100 million of prizes
have now been awarded by the 40 Thunderball lotteries to date.
- Amusingly, Alan Dedicoat read out the Thunderball as number
9 and the BBC 1 computer graphic for the Thunderball was also
shown as the number 9. Whilst Alan Dedicoat managed to correct
his mistake vocally and stated that it should be the number 6,
the BBC 1 computer graphic wasn't similarly corrected there and
then.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 7th September 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #41 (Saturday 18th March 2000) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #39 (Saturday 4th March 2000) [No jackpot winners]
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