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UK National Lottery #18
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 18th March 1995:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £3,987,786 | 2 | £7,975,572 | 28.4% |
| 5+bonus | £98,160 | 25 | £2,454,000 | 8.7% |
| 5 match | £1,267 | 1,210 | £1,533,070 | 5.5% |
| 4 match | £47 | 71,061 | £3,339,867 | 11.9% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,277,813 | £12,778,130 | 45.5% |
| Totals | 1,350,111 | £28,080,639 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 7.7% fall | £62,479,486 | |
| Good causes | 7.7% fall | £16,333,539.48 | 26.1% of ticket sales |
The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 4 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.80.
One in every 46.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.16% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,217,637.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included no wins.
- Two of the four remaining unpicked main numbers, 24 and 41,
both appeared in this draw, leaving 28 and 34 as the only unpicked main
numbers, although 28 has twice been a bonus number of course (whereas 34 has
never appeared anywhere).
- The number 31 has appeared as a main number for the fifth time, joining
the numbers 29 and 38 at the top of the frequency table.
- With 5 of the 6 main numbers being 31 or less,
the number of 3 match winners was the second highest for a "normal"
(non-rollover/Super Draw) week - the birthdate/month factor came into play
yet again.
- This was the first time that two consecutive draws had the same 4-match
prize.
- The ticket sales broke the record for non-rollovers/Super Draws.
- This was the record 10th consecutive week where the jackpot was won.
- ITV's teletext page 123 gave confusingly mixed-accuracy results [some
categories had exact figures and others were rounded] which is the worst
possible method of presentation and not the first time they've done this.
They also failed to update sub-page 2 onwards until around 11pm on Saturday,
leaving last week's results on those sub-pages until then !
- Ticket sales have now
exceeded £1,000,000,000.
- No matches at all for me this week to keep up my 100% failure rate.
- £784,570 of unclaimed prizes (2.79% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 14th September 1995 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #19 (Saturday 25th March 1995) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #17 (Saturday 11th March 1995) [2 jackpot winners]
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