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UK National Lottery #71
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 23rd March 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £877,907 | 9 | £7,901,163 | 25.4% |
| 5+bonus | £24,807 | 98 | £2,431,086 | 7.8% |
| 5 match | £774 | 1,962 | £1,518,588 | 4.9% |
| 4 match | £33 | 100,195 | £3,306,435 | 10.6% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,596,881 | £15,968,810 | 51.3% |
| Totals | 1,699,145 | £31,126,082 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Lucky Dip sales | | £2,619,639 | 3.8% of ticket sales |
| Manual sales | 3.4% fall | £66,632,297 | 96.2% of ticket sales |
| Ticket sales | 0.4% rise | £69,251,936 | 78.4% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 5.1% fall | £19,084,360 | 21.6% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 0.8% fall | £88,336,296 | |
| Good causes | 0.7% rise | £24,083,252.20 | 27.3% 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 7 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.32.
One in every 40.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.45% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,266,644.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- This was the first time that the same lottery machine (Guinevere
in this case) had been randomly selected for the fifth consecutive draw.
- The number 5 breaks clear as the leader of the pack again with its 14th
appearance as a main number and
its 18th as one of the seven
drawn balls.
- The number 28 becomes the first one to appear for the fifth time as
a bonus number, which
may explain the second highest number of 5+bonus winners ever (and hence
the second worst 5+bonus prize in the history of the lottery).
- The number pair 5 and 30 has now appeared for the sixth time (including
bonus numbers), meaning it joins the pair 17 and 42 at the top of the
table.
- Similarly, the triple 5, 14 and 30 joins three other triples at the top
of the winning number triples table
with its third such appearance.
- The numbers 5, 14 and 43 also appeared in
Lottery #25 and the very
first draw also had the numbers 5, 14 and 30.
- The ticket
5, 7, 22, 25, 28 and 30 has now become the first one to
win ten 3-match prizes.
- The prizes have been poor for two (or three) consecutive draws now,
including these first-time events:
- Three consecutive draws with a jackpot prize under £2m.
- Two consecutive draws with non-millionaire jackpot winners.
- Three consecutive draws with a 5+bonus prize under £50,000.
- Two consecutive draws with a 5-match prize under £800.
- Two consecutive draws with a 4-match prize under £40.
- The
combined
sales have fallen for the 8th consecutive week and
are now at their lowest level since the
first week the scratchcards were introduced.
- This was the first time that the same lottery machine (Guinevere) had
been used for five consecutive draws.
- This was the first draw that allowed players to enter on a 7-board
playslip instead of the previous 5-board
playslip and also to use a
Lucky Dip facility on lottery
terminals to pick random numbers.
- This was the first draw for my second annual
subscription, which now covers two tickets
per draw. I only matched one number on my first ticket, but it was agony
for me again as the second ticket matched two numbers and was one out on a
third :-(
- £932,568 of unclaimed prizes (3.00% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 19th September 1996 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #72 (Saturday 30th March 1996) [No jackpot winners]
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