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UK National Lottery Thunderball #87
Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 3rd February 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 | 1 | £250,000 | 9.1% |
| 5 | £5,000 | 15 | £75,000 | 2.7% |
| 4+T/ball | £250 | 250 | £62,500 | 2.3% |
| 4 | £100 | 2,490 | £249,000 | 9.1% |
| 3+T/ball | £20 | 6,498 | £129,960 | 4.7% |
| 3 | £10 | 64,743 | £647,430 | 23.5% |
| 2+T/ball | £10 | 54,853 | £548,530 | 19.9% |
| 1+T/ball | £5 | 157,677 | £788,385 | 28.7% |
| Totals | 286,527 | £2,750,805 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 1.3% rise | £4,406,906 | |
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 T1 in the Excalibur 1 machine
- The average prize was £ 9.60.
One in every 15.4 tickets won a prize (=6.50% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £55.
- The numbers 4 and 11
have joined the number 9 at the top of the
winning number frequency
table
after their 23rd such appearances.
- The 9th appearance of the number 4 as a Thunderball
has brought it to within one of the Thunderball frequency
table leader
(the number 1).
- Eleven main number pairs
have now appeared five times since the Thunderball draws
began.
- Four main number triples
have now appeared three times to date in the history of the
Thunderball lottery.
- For the first time ever, there was at least one winner in each of
the main, Thunderball and Extra draws on a Saturday.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 2nd August 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #88 (Saturday 10th February 2001) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #86 (Saturday 27th January 2001) [1 jackpot winner]
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