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UK National Lottery Thunderball #965
Winning numbers drawn at 10.42pm BST on Wednesday 12th May 2010:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| 5+T/ball | £500,000 | 0 | £0 | 0.0% |
| 5 | £5,000 | 4 | £20,000 | 2.1% |
| 4+T/ball | £250 | 44 | £11,000 | 1.1% |
| 4 | £100 | 487 | £48,700 | 5.0% |
| 3+T/ball | £20 | 1,280 | £25,600 | 2.7% |
| 3 | £10 | 17,619 | £176,190 | 18.3% |
| 2+T/ball | £10 | 14,874 | £148,740 | 15.4% |
| 1+T/ball | £5 | 60,722 | £303,610 | 31.5% |
| T/ball | £3 | 76,926 | £230,778 | 23.9% |
| Totals | 171,956 | £964,618 | 100.0% |
The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 6 balls.
| | Updated Frequencies |
|---|
| Drawn | Order | Main | T/ball | Total |
| 1st | 21 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2nd | 32 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3rd | 24 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4th | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5th | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| T/ball | 10 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 136 | 5 | 1 | 6 |
| Avg. | 22.7 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.0 |
Comments:
- The draw used ball set T2 in the Excalibur 2 machine
- The average prize was £ 5.61.
- 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.
- This draw ushered in the first changes
in the Thunderball game since the introduction of the Wednesday draw way back in
October 2002. To summarise, the jackpot
(5+T/ball) is now £500,000, there is a new T/ball-only prize
tier (£3), there are now 39 main balls instead of 34 (more than doubling the odds
of winning the jackpot) and there are three draws a week (Wed, Fri and Sat).
- Because of the additional 5 main balls, frequency statistics have been zeroed in the
table above. In other words, the frequencies now accumulate from draw 965 onwards
rather than from draw 1 onwards. You can, of course, see the "final" old Thunderball's
frequencies here.
- This draw saw the highest ever main ball
(38)
seen in a Thunderball game - one of the 5 new balls added from this draw onwards.
- Sadly, despite heavy advertising and a doubling of the jackpot prize, the top
prize won in this draw was a mere £5,000. It's almost worth betting on how
many draws it will take to see the first £500,000 jackpot win - my guess is
5 draws.
- Prizes won in this draw must be claimed within 180 days i.e. by 5.30pm GMT on Monday 8th November 2010.
Next Thunderball: #966 (Friday 14th May 2010) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Thunderball: #964 (Saturday 8th May 2010) [No jackpot winners]
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