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UK National Lottery Thunderball #171
Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 14th September 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 | 9.9% |
| 5 | £5,000 | 17 | £85,000 | 3.4% |
| 4+T/ball | £250 | 231 | £57,750 | 2.3% |
| 4 | £100 | 2,703 | £270,300 | 10.7% |
| 3+T/ball | £20 | 5,639 | £112,780 | 4.5% |
| 3 | £10 | 61,620 | £616,200 | 24.4% |
| 2+T/ball | £10 | 43,978 | £439,780 | 17.4% |
| 1+T/ball | £5 | 138,444 | £692,220 | 27.4% |
| Totals | 252,633 | £2,524,030 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 0.2% fall | £4,072,104 | |
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 3 machine
- The average prize was £ 9.99.
One in every 16.1 tickets won a prize (=6.20% of players).
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £105.
This is the outright highest number of prior wins for
a Thunderball jackpot ticket to date.
- The number 4 has stretched its lead
at the top of the winning number frequency
table to
three after its 47th such appearance.
- The number 4 also has a lead of three over the
rest in the Thunderball frequency
table thanks
to its 18th appearance as a Thunderball.
- One ticket combination
has now won 26 prizes in the 171 Thunderball lotteries to date.
- This was only the second time that all six winning
numeers were even.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 13th March 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #172 (Saturday 21st September 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #170 (Saturday 7th September 2002) [2 jackpot winners]
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