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UK National Lottery Thunderball #297
Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 17th December 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 | 3.9% |
| 4+T/ball | £250 | 69 | £17,250 | 1.7% |
| 4 | £100 | 1,413 | £141,300 | 13.9% |
| 3+T/ball | £20 | 1,725 | £34,500 | 3.4% |
| 3 | £10 | 36,157 | £361,570 | 35.4% |
| 2+T/ball | £10 | 16,327 | £163,270 | 16.0% |
| 1+T/ball | £5 | 52,550 | £262,750 | 25.7% |
| Totals | 108,249 | £1,020,640 | 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 T4 in the Excalibur 4 machine
- The average prize was £ 9.43.
- The prior history of the jackpot ticket included 18 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 14th June 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Thunderball: #298 (Saturday 20th December 2003) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #296 (Saturday 13th December 2003) [3 jackpot winners]
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