UK National Lottery Thunderball #281

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm BST on Wednesday 22nd 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	2	£500,000	33.8%
5	£5,000	7	£35,000	2.4%
4+T/ball	£250	65	£16,250	1.1%
4	£100	1,005	£100,500	6.8%
3+T/ball	£20	2,189	£43,780	3.0%
3	£10	31,002	£310,020	21.0%
2+T/ball	£10	18,176	£181,760	12.3%
1+T/ball	£5	57,897	£289,485	19.6%
Totals	110,343		£1,476,795	100.0%

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	20	38	0	38	5	Never	5
2nd	14	41	21	62	11	5	5
3rd	06	46	16	62	3	3	3
4th	27	43	0	43	10	Never	10
5th	23	38	0	38	2	Never	2
T/ball	14	41	21	62	11	5	5
Total	104	247	58	305	42	856	30
Avg.	17.3	41.2	9.7	50.8	7.0	142.7	5.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set T1 in the Excalibur 1 machine

The average prize was £13.38.

The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £110.

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 draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 19th April 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #282 (Saturday 25th October 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #280 (Saturday 18th October 2003) [3 jackpot winners]

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