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UK National Lottery Thunderball #79
Winning numbers drawn at 7.58pm GMT on Saturday 9th December 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 | 2 | £500,000 | 18.5% |
| 5 | £5,000 | 12 | £60,000 | 2.2% |
| 4+T/ball | £250 | 170 | £42,500 | 1.6% |
| 4 | £100 | 1,987 | £198,700 | 7.4% |
| 3+T/ball | £20 | 5,331 | £106,620 | 3.9% |
| 3 | £10 | 58,772 | £587,720 | 21.8% |
| 2+T/ball | £10 | 46,744 | £467,440 | 17.3% |
| 1+T/ball | £5 | 147,536 | £737,680 | 27.3% |
| Totals | 260,554 | £2,700,660 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 1.2% fall | £4,424,415 | |
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 1 machine
- The average prize was £10.37.
One in every 17.0 tickets won a prize (=5.89% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £60.
- The 21st appearance of the winning number
4 has made it the outright leader of
the winning number frequency
table.
- The number 4 has become only the third number
to appear in two consecutive draws as a
Thunderball.
- This was the first time that 3 of the 5
main numbers had appeared
in the previous draw and, even more remarkably,
4 of the 6 winning numbers had also
appeared in the
previous draw.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 7th June 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #80 (Saturday 16th December 2000) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #78 (Saturday 2nd December 2000) [No jackpot winners]
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