UK National Lottery #113

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 11th January 1997:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,964,980           5    £9,824,900      31.6%
5+bonus       £125,960          24    £3,023,040       9.7%
5 match         £1,417       1,333    £1,888,861       6.1%
4 match            £61      67,376    £4,109,936      13.2%
3 match            £10   1,221,946   £12,219,460      39.4%
Totals                   1,290,684   £31,066,197     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip sales          0.2% rise    £8,995,736     13.0% of  ticket  sales
Manual sales             0.5% rise   £60,145,385     87.0% of  ticket  sales
Ticket sales             0.4% rise   £69,141,121     82.7% of combined sales
Instants sales           7.9% fall   £14,499,577     17.3% of combined sales
Combined sales           1.1% fall   £83,640,698   
Good causes              1.1% fall   £22,332,133.28  26.7% of combined sales

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.

                    Updated Frequencies       Since Last Appeared
Drawn   Order      Main    Bonus   Total    Main    Bonus    Either
1st       16        17       3       20       7       55        7 
2nd       43        15       3       18       7       19        7 
3rd       04        16       1       17       6      103        6 
4th       11        17       2       19       1       35        1 
5th       18        15       0       15       8     Never       8 
6th       35        15       0       15       3     Never       3 
Bonus     39         8       1        9       2     Never       2 
Total    166       103      10      113      34      551       34
Avg.      23.7      14.7     1.4     16.1     4.9     78.7      4.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 3 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.07. One in every 53.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.87% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,709,367.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.
• The number 39 finally appeared as a bonus number for the first time, leaving only the four numbers 18, 32, 35 and 42 as the only ones not to have been drawn as a bonus number.
• The winning number 39 also made only its 9th such appearance and remains bottom of that table, although now only one behind the rest of the pack.
• The winning number 29 has failed to appear for 31 consecutive draws, which is the joint second longest such absence in the history of the lottery.
• The combined sales of the online lottery and the scratchcards since they began exceeded £10 billion during Saturday, a fact that seems to have been missed by the UK media and was first mentioned on these pages !
• Scratchcard sales dropped to their lowest level since the first week of their introduction nearly two years ago.
• No match on my first ticket and only one match on my second continues my disappointing winless run.
• £686,030 of unclaimed prizes (2.21% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 10th July 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #114 (Saturday 18th January 1997) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #112 (Saturday 4th January 1997) [10 jackpot winners]

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