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UK National Lottery #69
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 9th March 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £1,325,202 | 8 | £10,601,616 | 33.5% |
| 5+bonus | £38,376 | 85 | £3,261,960 | 10.3% |
| 5 match | £1,577 | 1,292 | £2,037,484 | 6.5% |
| 4 match | £69 | 64,736 | £4,466,784 | 14.1% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,123,801 | £11,238,010 | 35.6% |
| Totals | 1,189,922 | £31,605,854 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 3.8% fall | £70,279,408 | 76.9% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 9.5% rise | £21,165,894 | 23.1% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 1.0% fall | £91,445,302 | |
| Good causes | 8.7% fall | £24,557,599.27 | 26.9% 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 2 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £26.56.
One in every 59.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.69% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,321,660.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- The number 16 joins 5 and 44 at the top of the main number
frequency table with its
13th appearance.
- The controversy surrounding the new 3-match
prize rule (which will probably
never be used in our lifetime and hence is of little consequence) may have
affected this week's
ticket sales which fell by about
2.75m - the largest such drop between any two consecutive "normal" weeks to
date.
- Similarly, the
combined sales dropped for a record
sixth consecutive week.
- The number of 5+bonus
winners
was the third highest in the history of
lottery ("lucky 7" factor ?), which unfortunately meant that the 5+bonus
prize was also the third lowest ever.
- No matches at all for me this week, but it was agonising
that I didn't buy a second ticket this week (and my second
subscription - with that second ticket -
doesn't start for two more weeks) because that would have been a 3-match...
- £930,815 of unclaimed prizes (2.95% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 5th September 1996 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #70 (Saturday 16th March 1996) [57 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #68 (Saturday 2nd March 1996) [2 jackpot winners]
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