UK National Lottery Thunderball #197

Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm GMT on Wednesday 1st January 2003:

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	8	£40,000	3.8%
4+T/ball	£250	91	£22,750	2.2%
4	£100	1,254	£125,400	11.9%
3+T/ball	£20	2,085	£41,700	3.9%
3	£10	33,993	£339,930	32.2%
2+T/ball	£10	18,817	£188,170	17.8%
1+T/ball	£5	59,681	£298,405	28.2%
Totals	115,929		£1,056,355	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		0.7% fall	£2,289,982

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	18	38	0	38	2	Never	2
2nd	23	24	0	24	5	Never	5
3rd	22	31	0	31	23	Never	23
4th	27	28	0	28	3	Never	3
5th	08	31	13	44	12	9	9
T/ball	12	29	14	43	5	4	4
Total	110	181	27	208	50	801	46
Avg.	18.3	30.2	4.5	34.7	8.3	133.5	7.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set T4 in the Excalibur 1 machine

The average prize was £ 9.11. One in every 19.8 tickets won a prize (=5.06% of players).

The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £150.

This draw had the highest number of 4-match and 3-match prize winners for a Wednesday Thunderball game.

Three ticket combinations have now won 29 prizes in the 197 Thunderball draws to date.

This was only the second time that five consecutive Thunderball draws failed to result in a jackpot winner.

Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 30th June 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #198 (Saturday 4th January 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #196 (Saturday 28th December 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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