UK National Lottery Thunderball #168

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 24th August 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	1	£250,000	11.5%
5	£5,000	8	£40,000	1.8%
4+T/ball	£250	155	£38,750	1.8%
4	£100	2,041	£204,100	9.4%
3+T/ball	£20	4,321	£86,420	4.0%
3	£10	55,064	£550,640	25.4%
2+T/ball	£10	37,738	£377,380	17.4%
1+T/ball	£5	124,879	£624,395	28.7%
Totals	224,207		£2,171,685	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales		0.5% rise	£4,126,872

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	04	29	17	46	3	13	3
2nd	29	22	0	22	5	Never	5
3rd	18	33	0	33	1	Never	1
4th	31	27	0	27	4	Never	4
5th	14	27	10	37	5	22	5
T/ball	08	26	11	37	3	15	3
Total	104	164	38	202	21	554	21
Avg.	17.3	27.3	6.3	33.7	3.5	92.3	3.5

Comments:

The draw used ball set T5 in the Excalibur 1 machine

The average prize was £ 9.69. One in every 18.4 tickets won a prize (=5.43% of players).

The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 10 wins totalling £85.

The winning number (4) extended its lead to three at the top of appropriate frequency table after its 46th such appearance.

Six main number pairs have now appeared eight times since the Thunderball began.

This was the ninth consecutive draw where there was at least one Thunderball jackpot winner, which is an all-time outright record.

Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 20th February 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #169 (Saturday 31st August 2002) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #167 (Saturday 17th August 2002) [1 jackpot winner]

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