UK National Lottery Thunderball #18

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 9th October 1999:

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       2.3%
4+T/ball          £250          87       £21,750       1.2%
4                 £100       1,281      £128,100       7.3%
3+T/ball           £20       3,522       £70,440       4.0%
3                  £10      49,982      £499,820      28.5%
2+T/ball           £10      36,440      £364,400      20.8%
1+T/ball            £5     126,254      £631,270      35.9%
Totals                     217,574    £1,755,780     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales             1.3% fall    £4,625,648   

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       05         3       1        4       6        8        6 
2nd       33         5       0        5       5     Never       5 
3rd       32         5       0        5       2     Never       2 
4th       22         3       0        3       1     Never       1 
5th       06         3       2        5       1        7        1 
T/ball    13         2       3        5       8        3        3 
Total    111        21       6       27      23       72       18
Avg.      18.5       3.5     1.0      4.5     3.8     12.0      3.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set T3 in the Excalibur 1 machine
• The average prize was £ 8.07. One in every 21.3 tickets won a prize (=4.70% of players).
• The prior history of the jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
• The numbers 32 and 33 are now the joint leaders of the main number frequency table with five such appearances each.
• The number 13 has become the third number to have appeared three times as the Thunderball to date.
• The main number triple 05, 06, 33 has become the first to appear twice in the Thunderball lottery (the first time was 10 weeks ago).
• This was the first time that two main numbers (6 and 22) have appeared in the same two consecutive draws.
• The draw had the lowest number of 4+Thunderball (under 100 for the first time) and total winners of any Thunderball draw to date.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 6th April 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Thunderball: #19 (Saturday 16th October 1999) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Thunderball: #17 (Saturday 2nd October 1999) [1 jackpot winner]

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