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UK National Lottery #80
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 25th May 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £2,054,754 | 5 | £10,273,770 | 32.8% |
| 5+bonus | £137,441 | 23 | £3,161,143 | 10.1% |
| 5 match | £1,013 | 1,950 | £1,975,350 | 6.3% |
| 4 match | £58 | 73,917 | £4,287,186 | 13.7% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,164,449 | £11,644,490 | 37.1% |
| Totals | 1,240,344 | £31,341,939 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Lucky Dip sales | 11.1% rise | £5,809,030 | 8.3% of ticket sales |
| Manual sales | 0.8% fall | £63,972,628 | 91.7% of ticket sales |
| Ticket sales | 0.1% rise | £69,781,658 | 78.3% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 9.6% rise | £19,289,014 | 21.7% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 2.0% rise | £89,070,672 | |
| Good causes | 4.4% rise | £23,781,940.68 | 26.7% 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 Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.27.
One in every 56.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.78% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,664,655.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included no wins.
- Over 200 millionaires have now been created by the lottery.
- The appearance of number 20 established the second longest
period (of 36 weeks) without
appearing as a main number. This now means that the number 36 takes over
as the main number which hasn't
appeared
as a main number for longest period (33 weeks) since this draw.
- Similarly, the number 20's appearance has left the numbers 36 and 39
as custodians of the longest period (21 weeks) since they last
appeared as
one of the 7 winning numbers drawn.
- One of the jackpot winners (allegedly the deceased husband of an
83-year-old widow)
expired and ended up in the National Lottery
Distribution Fund - the largest prize to do so to date.
A terminally ill 63-year-old Hull man, Brian Hay,
tried a hoax claim only seconds before the deadline !
- Because of this expired jackpot, the
unclaimed prizes for this draw
totalled nearly £3m, which was more than twice the previous
record from 16 months ago.
- One match on each of my tickets as I fail to win for the 20th
successive draw.
- A jackpot prize of £2,054,754 won by a ticket bought in the Hull area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
- £2,948,860 of unclaimed prizes (9.41% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 21st November 1996 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #81 (Saturday 1st June 1996) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #79 (Saturday 18th May 1996) [1 jackpot winner]
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