UK National Lottery Thunderball #137

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 19th January 2002:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
5+T/ball	£250,000	6	£1,500,000	32.9%
5	£5,000	48	£240,000	5.2%
4+T/ball	£250	415	£103,750	2.3%
4	£100	3,180	£318,000	7.0%
3+T/ball	£20	8,875	£177,500	3.9%
3	£10	75,742	£757,420	16.6%
2+T/ball	£10	60,473	£604,730	13.2%
1+T/ball	£5	172,478	£862,390	18.9%
Totals	321,217		£4,563,790	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales		0.1% rise	£4,682,502

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 6 balls.

		Updated Frequencies			Since Last Appeared
Drawn	Order	Main	T/ball	Total	Main	T/ball	Either
1st	20	21	0	21	3	Never	3
2nd	17	20	0	20	3	Never	3
3rd	05	16	12	28	1	18	1
4th	25	32	0	32	2	Never	2
5th	02	25	9	34	3	1	1
T/ball	05	16	12	28	1	18	1
Total	74	130	33	163	13	448	11
Avg.	12.3	21.7	5.5	27.2	2.2	74.7	1.8

Comments:

The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 1 machine

The average prize was £14.21. One in every 14.6 tickets won a prize (=6.86% of players).

The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 11 wins totalling £85.

The number 25 stretched its lead to five at the top of the main number frequency table after its 32nd such appearance.

One ticket combination has now won 22 prizes in the 137 Thunderball lotteries to date.

Four main number pairs have now managed seven appearances each so far.

This draw had the joint highest number of jackpot winners in the history of the Thunderball lottery, the outright highest number of 4+T/ball and 3+T/ball winners and the third highest number of 5-match and 2+T/ball winners. One suspects that a lot of people play "1" as a main number and then pick "2" afterwards as a Thunderball, which - along with other mostly low numbers - might explain these peaks involving the Thunderball tiers.

Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 18th July 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #138 (Saturday 26th January 2002) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #136 (Saturday 12th January 2002) [1 jackpot winner]

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