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UK National Lottery Thunderball #50
Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 20th May 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 | 0 | £0 | 0.0% |
| 5 | £5,000 | 8 | £40,000 | 2.1% |
| 4+T/ball | £250 | 93 | £23,250 | 1.2% |
| 4 | £100 | 1,295 | £129,500 | 6.8% |
| 3+T/ball | £20 | 3,964 | £79,280 | 4.2% |
| 3 | £10 | 48,079 | £480,790 | 25.4% |
| 2+T/ball | £10 | 41,205 | £412,050 | 21.8% |
| 1+T/ball | £5 | 145,524 | £727,620 | 38.5% |
| Totals | 240,168 | £1,892,490 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 17.1% fall | £4,466,419 | |
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 £ 7.88.
One in every 18.6 tickets won a prize (=5.38% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- The 12th appearance of the number 25
has helped it to join the number 16 on 12
appearances each at the top of the main number
frequency table.
- Every one of the 14 Thunderballs has now
appeared
at least 3 times in the 50 Thunderball draws to date.
- Ticket sales fell by their
largest percentage and amount (£923,920) ever as
things returned to "normal" after the previous week's
£1m Thunderball ticket giveaway.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 16th November 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #51 (Saturday 27th May 2000) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #49 (Saturday 13th May 2000) [5 jackpot winners]
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