UK National Lottery #178 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 12.15am BST on Sunday 7th September 1997:

20 22 26 36 40 41 (16)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 26th single rollover draw and the 28th rollover in total, included £5,000,000 (35.4%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £9,126,168 (64.6%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot    £14,126,168           1   £14,126,168      48.2%
5+bonus       £216,003          13    £2,808,039       9.6%
5 match         £3,865         454    £1,754,710       6.0%
4 match           £123      31,221    £3,840,183      13.1%
3 match            £10     677,777    £6,777,770      23.1%
Totals                     709,466   £29,306,870     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      4.4% fall   £11,792,700     14.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      5.8% fall   £68,911,572     85.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      6.6% fall   £54,062,432     67.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      3.5% fall   £26,641,840     33.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      5.6% fall   £80,704,272     84.9% of combined sales
Instants sales           4.6% fall   £14,312,557     15.1% of combined sales
Combined sales           5.5% fall   £95,016,829   
Good causes              5.5% fall   £26,753,202.26  28.2% 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       22        23       5       28       1       33        1 
2nd       41        24       4       28       5       18        5 
3rd       40        24       3       27      21       35       21 
4th       36        21       5       26       4       39        4 
5th       20        20       8       28       2        3        2 
6th       26        22       1       23      15      137       15 
Bonus     16        25       6       31      10       13       10 
Total    201       159      32      191      58      278       58
Avg.      28.7      22.7     4.6     27.3     8.3     39.7      8.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £41.31. One in every 76.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.31% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £2,791,620.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
The ticket sales were the worst ever for a weekend rollover draw.
The lottery TV show was cancelled out of respect for the death of Princess Diana, although the draw went ahead off-camera on Sunday at 12.15am BST, with the winning numbers and full results bizarrely embargoed by Camelot until 6am BST !
To make matters worse, on the very day that people were screaming out for information, Camelot's official Web site displayed the wrong winning numbers between 7.05am and 11.11am BST on the morning of the draw !
I matched only one number on my third ticket and nothing on the other three tickets, continuing my terrible losing run as usual.
£426,378 of unclaimed prizes (1.14% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Friday 6th March 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #179 (Wednesday 10th September 1997) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #177 (Wednesday 3rd September 1997) [No jackpot winners]

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