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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