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UK National Lottery #24 (Single Rollover Draw)
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 29th April 1995:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
The jackpot prize pool for this, the 4th single rollover draw, included £8,554,300 (45.1%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £10,429,350 (54.9%).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £1,355,975 | 14 | £18,983,650 | 45.3% |
| 5+bonus | £97,243 | 33 | £3,209,019 | 7.6% |
| 5 match | £782 | 2,563 | £2,004,266 | 4.8% |
| 4 match | £52 | 83,324 | £4,332,848 | 10.3% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,341,437 | £13,414,370 | 32.0% |
| Totals | 1,427,371 | £41,944,153 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 17.5% rise | £74,379,636 | 62.8% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 10.1% rise | £44,103,800 | 37.2% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 14.6% rise | £118,483,436 | |
| Good causes | 14.6% rise | £30,611,285.74 | 25.8% of combined 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 6 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £29.39.
One in every 52.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.92% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,217,164.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included no wins.
- This was the first time more than 10 millionaires had been created from
a single draw, exactly doubling the previous record of 7 millionaires held
by Lottery #10.
- With it being a rollover week, the sheer volume of ticket sales mostly
accounted for the large number of winners overall, although it was only the
second time that all 5 columns on the playslip contained a winning main
number - the first time was Lottery #4.
- For the fourth time, Camelot included the rollover jackpot (£8.5m)
in both this draw and the previous draw's total prize
pool figures they've officially quoted. I find this totally misleading
(Camelot seem to imply a "pool" is both won and unwon money !), because it
should really only be quoted in one or the other, but not both. I strongly
suspect it's a tactic by Camelot to bolster the prize pool figures during a
rollover and hope no-one notices. I did complain to Camelot on the
phone about this, but I didn't really get anywhere on the subject.
- The scratchcard sales set
a new record by some £4m (sales rose for 5 consecutive weeks,
which remains a record) and this helped the
combined sales exceed
the previous all-time record by a mammoth £12m.
- The numbers 22 and 31 now join 17, 38 and 42 as having appeared more
times (6) as a main number than any other numbers.
- You must be feeling sick if you have the number 28, because now that
the number 34 has finally appeared, 28 remains the only number not to have
made its appearance as one of the main six numbers in a draw.
- Needless to say, my record now reads 24 draws, 24 failures to win. Both
of my tickets didn't even match a single number. My fourth choice
ticket,
however, would have matched 3 numbers and won £10, but I only buy that
for triple rollovers of course.
- £916,936 of unclaimed prizes (2.19% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 26th October 1995 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #25 (Saturday 6th May 1995) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #23 (Saturday 22nd April 1995) [No jackpot winners]
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