UK National Lottery #188

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 11th October 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £8,548,888           1    £8,548,888      32.0%
5+bonus       £119,564          22    £2,630,408       9.8%
5 match         £2,135         770    £1,643,950       6.2%
4 match            £69      51,685    £3,566,265      13.4%
3 match            £10   1,031,836   £10,318,360      38.6%
Totals                   1,084,314   £26,707,871     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      2.3% fall   £13,794,892     15.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.9% fall   £74,600,457     84.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.5% fall   £59,463,401     67.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.5% fall   £28,931,948     32.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.2% fall   £88,395,349     86.4% of combined sales
Instants sales           0.0% fall   £13,873,280     13.6% of combined sales
Combined sales           1.0% fall  £102,268,629   
Good causes              1.4% fall   £28,725,399.06  28.1% 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       18        21       0       21      18     Never      18 
2nd       17        26       3       29       3       39        3 
3rd       15        16       4       20       4        1        1 
4th       34        22       6       28       1       34        1 
5th       40        30       3       33       2       45        2 
6th       27        25       2       27      15       30       15 
Bonus     29        22       5       27       4       14        4 
Total    180       162      23      185      47      351       44
Avg.      25.7      23.1     3.3     26.4     6.7     50.1      6.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.63. One in every 54.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.82% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,422,771.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
• The 16th appearance of the main number 15 has left the main number 39 two adrift at the bottom of that frequency table.
• The main number 17, 40 has become the first to appear eight times since the lottery began.
• The winning number 39 has now failed to appear in 41 consecutive draws, which is the joint second longest such such absence ever.
• I matched nothing on either of my two tickets, so bang goes another £2.
• £1,233,976 of unclaimed prizes (2.99% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 9th April 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #189 (Wednesday 15th October 1997) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #187 (Wednesday 8th October 1997) [8 jackpot winners]

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