UK National Lottery Thunderball #83
Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 6th January 2001:
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 | 1.8% |
| 4+T/ball | £250 | 244 | £61,000 | 2.7% |
| 4 | £100 | 2,536 | £253,600 | 11.1% |
| 3+T/ball | £20 | 5,469 | £109,380 | 4.8% |
| 3 | £10 | 64,527 | £645,270 | 28.3% |
| 2+T/ball | £10 | 45,568 | £455,680 | 20.0% |
| 1+T/ball | £5 | 142,496 | £712,480 | 31.3% |
| Totals | 260,848 | £2,277,410 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 0.3% rise | £4,336,654 | |
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 T4 in the Excalibur 3 machine
- The average prize was £ 8.73.
One in every 16.6 tickets won a prize (=6.01% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £30.
- The number 9 has joined the number
11 at the top of the winning number frequency
table
after its 22nd such appearance.
- This was the first time that all five main numbers
were drawn in decending order (i.e. the largest was drawn first
through to the smallest being drawn fifth).
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 5th July 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #84 (Saturday 13th January 2001) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #82 (Saturday 30th December 2000) [No jackpot winners]