UK National Lottery #142

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Winning numbers drawn at 7.58pm BST on Saturday 3rd May 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £9,512,277           1    £9,512,277      35.7%
5+bonus       £209,061          14    £2,926,854      11.0%
5 match         £2,499         732    £1,829,268       6.9%
4 match            £94      42,525    £3,997,350      15.0%
3 match            £10     836,548    £8,365,480      31.4%
Totals                     879,820   £26,631,229     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      1.1% fall   £11,170,802     13.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      1.4% fall   £73,409,373     86.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.3% fall   £59,240,714     70.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.5% fall   £25,339,461     30.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.3% fall   £84,580,175     83.9% of combined sales
Instants sales           0.5% fall   £16,286,362     16.1% of combined sales
Combined sales           1.2% fall  £100,866,537   
Good causes              1.2% fall   £28,216,727.83  28.0% 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       29        17       2       19       6       60        6 
2nd       40        20       2       22       1       19        1 
3rd       35        19       0       19       7     Never       7 
4th       20        13       5       18      16       58       16 
5th       06        17       3       20       2       74        2 
6th       31        21       1       22       8      139        8 
Bonus     21        12       5       17      22        6        6 
Total    182       119      18      137      62      498       46
Avg.      26.0      17.0     2.6     19.6     8.9     71.1      6.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 5 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.27. One in every 67.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.49% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,396,622.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
• The main number 15 has failed to appear for 42 consecutive draws, which makes gives it the outright second longest absence in lottery history.
• The main number triple 29, 31, 40 has become only the ninth such triple to have appeared 3 times since the lottery began.
• Even more remarkably, two winning number triples, 21, 29, 31 and 29, 31, 40 have both made their fourth appearances to join two other such triples at the top of the table.
• Ticket sales hit their lowest level for a Saturday draw for 28 months.
• This was the first time in over two years that two consecutive draws have had a single jackpot winner.
• I matched nothing on my ticket and two numbers on my second ticket to continue my current bad run of losses.
• £1,054,961 of unclaimed prizes (2.77% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 30th October 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #143 (Wednesday 7th May 1997) [14 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #141 (Wednesday 30th April 1997) [1 jackpot winner]

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