UK National Lottery Extra #40 (Super Draw #40)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm BST on Saturday 31st March 2001:

The main Lotto table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9 100 000 *15). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 15th consecutive rollover draw and the 37th rollover in total, included £6,848,754 (92.1%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £584,904 (7.9%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £7,433,658           0            £0     100.0% - rolled over
5 match             £0           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
Totals                           0            £0     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.5% rise    £1,299,787     62.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      2.7% rise      £772,997     37.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.3% rise    £2,072,784   

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                   Main
1st       41        10                      2 
2nd       28         7                      9 
3rd       46         7                      4 
4th       43         7                      2 
5th       27         5                     11 
6th       35        10                      2 
Total    220        46                     30
Avg.      36.7       7.7                    5.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 2 in the Galahad machine.
• This was the 40th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £1,000,000.
• The numbers 35 and 41 both made their 10th main number appearance in this draw, moving them to joint top of the appropriate frequency table.
• Those two numbers (35,41) also unsurprisingly became the outright leader of the main number pairs frequency table after their 5th appearance together.
• The range (19=46-27) of the numbers was the outright smallest ever.
• Ticket sales rose for an outright record fourth consecutive Saturday draw and for an outright record eighth consecutive draw.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 27th September 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery Extra: #41 (Wednesday 4th April 2001) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery Extra: #39 (Wednesday 28th March 2001) [No jackpot winners]

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