UK National Lottery #120

Winning numbers drawn at 8.06pm GMT on Saturday 15th February 1997:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£427,144	19	£8,115,736	28.7%
5+bonus	£60,906	41	£2,497,146	8.8%
5 match	£649	2,403	£1,559,547	5.5%
4 match	£40	84,551	£3,382,040	11.9%
3 match	£10	1,275,960	£12,759,600	45.1%
Totals	1,362,974		£28,314,069	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		9.2% fall	£12,152,579	13.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		3.4% fall	£80,592,557	86.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.2% fall	£63,037,350	68.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		9.9% fall	£29,707,786	32.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.2% fall	£92,745,136	85.7% of combined sales
Instants sales		1.5% rise	£15,538,567	14.3% of combined sales
Combined sales		3.4% fall	£108,283,703
Good causes		3.4% fall	£28,911,835.33	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.

		Updated Frequencies			Since Last Appeared
Drawn	Order	Main	Bonus	Total	Main	Bonus	Either
1st	14	18	3	21	1	20	1
2nd	21	12	2	14	6	102	6
3rd	07	15	3	18	17	35	17
4th	38	17	1	18	1	85	1
5th	47	18	4	22	2	1	1
6th	34	15	4	19	11	4	4
Bonus	13	14	2	16	2	104	2
Total	174	109	19	128	40	351	32
Avg.	24.9	15.6	2.7	18.3	5.7	50.1	4.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.77. One in every 46.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.16% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,388,341.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included no wins.

The winning number pair 34, 47 is now the only such pair to have appeared 8 times since the lottery began.

This was the first time that two consecutive draws have had 10 or more jackpot winners each.

Since a "freak draw" exactly 50 draws ago, this draw's managed to set some post-"freak draw" firsts:

Highest number of jackpot winners.
Lowest (won) individual jackpot and 5-match prizes.
Two consecutive draws with a (won) individual jackpot prize of less than £1m.

A lot of this is probably down to the appearance of the triple 07, 14, 21, especially considering that it is known that 7,14,21,28,35,42 is the most popular ticket combination played in the UK lottery.

This draw had the worst Saturday ticket sales for 21 months.

I was agonisingly close with my second ticket as I matched two and was one out on a third number. My first ticket didn't match anything.

£1,224,187 of unclaimed prizes (2.56% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 14th August 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #121 (Wednesday 19th February 1997) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #119 (Wednesday 12th February 1997) [18 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #120

Winning numbers drawn at 8.06pm GMT on Saturday 15th February 1997:

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Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.59am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020