UK National Lottery #105 (Super Draw #3)

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 16th November 1996:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

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 5 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £31.82. One in every 56.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.78% of players).
• This was the 3rd Super Draw and the jackpot pool was topped-up by £9,900,000.
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,828,327.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
• This Super Draw celebrated the second anniversary of the lottery, although the lottery terminal network crashed at 3pm on Saturday and remained unavailable for 40 minutes :-( This subsequently delayed the release of full unconfirmed results by Camelot until Sunday morning.
• The number 5 has now closed to within one of the number 44 at the top of the winning number frequency table with its 23rd appearance.
• At the other end of that table, the number 39 is even more desperately stranded at the bottom with the 10th appearance of the number 37 widening the gap to three.
• The ticket with the numbers 5, 14, 18, 25, 37 and 44 is the now currently the only one to have won 13 prizes in the history of the lottery.
• Remarkably, the main number range (41=42-1) has been the same for the latest three draws, which has never happened before.
• If double rollovers are ignored, this draw had the second highest total prize pool.
• For a Super Draw only, the following records were set:
  • Most number of winners of the total, jackpot and 3-match categories.
  • Least number of winners of the 4-match category.
  • The highest average individual prize.
  • The largest prize pools in all categories.
• Lucky Dip sales yet again hit a new all-time record level (first time over £14m) and a record percentage of ticket sales.
• During their complete redesign launched on this draw date coincidentally, BBC teletext created two new lottery pages, 555 and 556, on both BBC 1 and BBC 2, meaning that BBC 1 teletext finally has dedicated lottery pages, only 2 years after the draw began [which BBC 1 televises live] and 2 years after ITV started their dedicated teletext lottery page. Page 555 carries the latest 7 sets of winning numbers, whilst Page 556 is a news section. The two teletext page numbers were displayed for the first time below the winning balls at the end of the BBC 1 lottery TV show. Sadly, sub-page 2 of BBC 1 teletext page 555 incorrectly stated that there's "70,000" 4-match winners, which is silly when they correctly stated the exact numbers of winners and prizes of all of the other categories !
• The discrepancy in the jackpot prize pool I originally reported was confirmed - it was a £9.9m top-up, not a £10m top-up that was widely reported by Camelot and the press.
• £899,204 of unclaimed prizes (1.89% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 15th May 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #106 (Saturday 23rd November 1996) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #104 (Saturday 9th November 1996) [3 jackpot winners]

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