UK National Lottery Thunderball #178

Winning numbers drawn at 12.15am BST on Saturday 26th October 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	0	£0	0.0%
5	£5,000	9	£45,000	2.9%
4+T/ball	£250	86	£21,500	1.4%
4	£100	1,297	£129,700	8.3%
3+T/ball	£20	3,128	£62,560	4.0%
3	£10	43,428	£434,280	27.9%
2+T/ball	£10	30,974	£309,740	19.9%
1+T/ball	£5	111,118	£555,590	35.6%
Totals	190,040		£1,558,370	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.0% fall	£4,142,048	75.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)			£1,346,528	24.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		31.1% rise	£5,488,576

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	06	28	8	36	6	8	6
2nd	21	25	0	25	4	Never	4
3rd	34	18	0	18	8	Never	8
4th	32	24	0	24	9	Never	9
5th	30	24	0	24	6	Never	6
T/ball	13	26	14	40	5	15	5
Total	136	145	22	167	38	735	38
Avg.	22.7	24.2	3.7	27.8	6.3	122.5	6.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set T5 in the Excalibur 1 machine

The average prize was £ 8.20. One in every 21.8 tickets won a prize (=4.59% of players).

The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £75.

The 18th appearance of the rarest main number, 34, has allowed it to share the basement of the main number frequency table with the numbers 7 and 15. It only shares the basement with the number 15 (with 18 appearances each) at the bottom of the winning number frequency table.

Surprisingly, ticket sales remained above £4m, despite the dilution effect that was expected because of the new Wednesday Thunderball draw. Note, however, that the combined Wednesday and Saturday sales this week still only placed 6th in the all-time Thunderball weekly sales list.

Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 24th April 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #179 (Wednesday 30th October 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #177 (Wednesday 23rd October 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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