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UK National Lottery Thunderball #280
Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm BST on Saturday 18th October 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 | 3 | £750,000 | 26.6% |
| 5 | £5,000 | 8 | £40,000 | 1.4% |
| 4+T/ball | £250 | 129 | £32,250 | 1.1% |
| 4 | £100 | 1,706 | £170,600 | 6.1% |
| 3+T/ball | £20 | 4,642 | £92,840 | 3.3% |
| 3 | £10 | 57,137 | £571,370 | 20.3% |
| 2+T/ball | £10 | 43,111 | £431,110 | 15.3% |
| 1+T/ball | £5 | 146,077 | £730,385 | 25.9% |
| Totals | 252,813 | £2,818,555 | 100.0% |
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 T6 in the Excalibur 3 machine
- The average prize was £11.15.
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £195.
- From Saturday 12th July 2003 onwards, Camelot has completely refused to issue per-draw sales figures for any of their individual games,
despite continuously doing so for more than 8 years prior to that date. They blamed the media for only
concentrating on the main Lotto game sales (which have been falling steadily for years), which seems to be a poor excuse to me.
- Manual draw comments will be available here shortly.
- Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 15th April 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #281 (Wednesday 22nd October 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #279 (Wednesday 15th October 2003) [1 jackpot winner]
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