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UK National Lottery Thunderball #73
Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 28th October 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 | 15 | £75,000 | 4.0% |
| 4+T/ball | £250 | 161 | £40,250 | 2.1% |
| 4 | £100 | 2,331 | £233,100 | 12.4% |
| 3+T/ball | £20 | 3,608 | £72,160 | 3.9% |
| 3 | £10 | 58,906 | £589,060 | 31.4% |
| 2+T/ball | £10 | 33,170 | £331,700 | 17.7% |
| 1+T/ball | £5 | 106,713 | £533,565 | 28.5% |
| Totals | 204,904 | £1,874,835 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 1.5% rise | £4,904,312 | |
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 T5 in the Excalibur 3 machine
- The average prize was £ 9.15.
One in every 23.9 tickets won a prize (=4.18% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £45.
- The number 1 appeared for the 9th
time as a Thunderball, giving it a lead of the two
at the top of the Thunderball frequency
table.
- One ticket combination
has won 16 prizes in the 73 Thunderball lotteries to date.
- This was the first time a quadruple
(08, 09, 10, 11) has been drawn
in a Thunderball lottery. If the Thunderball had been the number
7 instead, we'd have an astonishing winning number sextet...
- Because of the above quadruple, the main number
range (5=11-6) was the outright smallest ever and the sum of the five
main numbers (44) was also the outright lowest ever.
- The winning number range
(10=11-1) was the joint smallest ever and the sum of the winning
numbers (45) was the outright lowest ever.
- The jackpot-winning ticket had previously
won 7 prizes (a joint
record) totalling £45 (also a joint record).
- Ticket sales rose for an impressive -
and outright record - fifth consecutive week.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 26th April 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #74 (Saturday 4th November 2000) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #72 (Saturday 21st October 2000) [No jackpot winners]
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