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UK National Lottery #73 (Single Rollover Draw)
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 6th April 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
The jackpot prize pool for this, the 12th single rollover draw and the 14th rollover in total, included £10,279,220 (48.4%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £10,947,355 (51.6%).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £4,245,315 | 5 | £21,226,575 | 46.0% |
| 5+bonus | £84,210 | 40 | £3,368,400 | 7.3% |
| 5 match | £1,668 | 1,262 | £2,105,016 | 4.5% |
| 4 match | £57 | 80,700 | £4,599,900 | 10.0% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,486,719 | £14,867,190 | 32.2% |
| Totals | 1,568,726 | £46,167,081 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Lucky Dip sales | 49.5% rise | £5,228,647 | 6.6% of ticket sales |
| Manual sales | 13.7% rise | £74,593,129 | 93.4% of ticket sales |
| Ticket sales | 15.5% rise | £79,821,776 | 81.5% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 1.8% fall | £18,125,108 | 18.5% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 11.9% rise | £97,946,884 | |
| Good causes | 12.9% rise | £26,548,118.66 | 27.1% 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 8 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £29.43.
One in every 50.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.97% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,912,279.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- The number 1 hadn't appeared as a
main number
for 31 draws or as one of the 7
winning numbers for 20 draws
(both leaders of the respective charts until this draw). The number 20 now
takes over the main number last appearance chart (30 draws) and the number
46 similarly leads the equivalent winning number chart (18 draws).
- This was first time that 6 of the 7 winning numbers were 20 or less and
was also only the second time that 5 of the 6 main numbers were less than
18, with only Lottery #5 previously managing that
feat. This meant that the
sum (80) of the 6 main numbers was the
lowest ever and the
sum (89) of the 7 winning numbers
was below 100 for the first time as well.
- The main number range (37=38-1) is the same as the previous draw's
(37=49-12), which has never happened before.
- The ticket sales were the second
best ever for a single rollover draw, although conversely the
combined sales were the lowest
for a single rollover draw since the scratchcards started. This was due
to the scratchcard sales being at
their lowest level since the
first week they were introduced.
- This draw had the highest individual jackpot prize won by 5 or more tickets.
- Despite buying a total of 4 tickets for the first time ever, I failed to
win for the 13th successive draw, although I did manage to match 2 numbers on
my second ticket (nothing on anything else though).
- £874,382 of unclaimed prizes (1.89% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 3rd October 1996 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #74 (Saturday 13th April 1996) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #72 (Saturday 30th March 1996) [No jackpot winners]
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