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UK National Lottery #118
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 8th February 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £2,208,421 | 4 | £8,833,684 | 30.9% |
| 5+bonus | £104,540 | 26 | £2,718,040 | 9.5% |
| 5 match | £1,443 | 1,177 | £1,698,411 | 5.9% |
| 4 match | £55 | 66,798 | £3,673,890 | 12.8% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,172,200 | £11,722,000 | 40.9% |
| Totals | 1,240,205 | £28,646,025 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Lucky Dip (S+W) | 11.8% rise | £13,388,338 | 13.8% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Manual sales (S+W) | 27.0% rise | £83,389,686 | 86.2% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Ticket sales (Sat) | 17.8% fall | £63,799,683 | 65.9% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Ticket sales (Wed) | | £32,978,341 | 34.1% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Ticket sales (S+W) | 24.6% rise | £96,778,024 | 86.3% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 0.3% fall | £15,303,600 | 13.7% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 20.5% rise | £112,081,624 | |
| Good causes | 20.5% rise | £29,925,883.27 | 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 6 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.10.
One in every 51.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.94% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,785,697.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- Camelot's computers failed for over 24 hours - the full results weren't
made available until just after 10.30pm on Sunday evening ! All figures are
now exactly correct.
- To make matters worse, the official UK National Lottery WWW
site showed the
previous Saturday's balls,
but with this Saturday's (badly spelled) date and draw number for nearly
40 hours !
- Yet again, I had the most accurate prediction of the jackpot prize pool.
I'd estimated £9m, whereas everyone else had estimated £8m.
- You could theoretically say that these were the highest ever normal
week's
Lucky Dip sales,
ticket sales and combined sales,
but since aggregate sales for the Wednesday and Saturday
draws are spread out over a total of 10 days (Thursday 30th January to
Saturday 8th February in this case), it's not a strict "week" of 7
consecutive days.
- Turning the ticket sales figures on their head, this draw had the
worst sales for a Saturday draw since August 1995 !
- All-time online ticket sales have now officially exceeded £8 billion.
- One match on each of my tickets means I return to the start of yet
another losing sequence (hopefully not 4 months long like the last one...).
- £1,085,616 of unclaimed prizes (2.23% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 7th August 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #119 (Wednesday 12th February 1997) [18 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #117 (Wednesday 5th February 1997) [3 jackpot winners]
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