UK National Lottery #121 (Super Draw #6)

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.27pm GMT on Wednesday 19th February 1997:

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 3 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £28.49. One in every 51.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.96% of players).
• This was the 6th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £7,000,000.
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,277,043.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.
• The two least frequent main numbers, 19 and 39, both remarkably appeared in this draw and their ninth appearances managed pulled them up to join the number 37 at the foot of the table.
• The winning number 39 managed to close the gap to one on the rest of the pack (though it's still the rarest such number) with its 10th such appearance.
• This was the first time in exactly 100 draws that the 6 main numbers appeared in just two columns of the playslip.
• This was only the third time that 6 of the 7 winning numbers were odd.
• This draw had the worst ticket sales ever and provides yet more proof that midweek draws have been rejected in a major way by the British public. It was also the first time that five consecutive draws had shown a drop in sales.
• The number of 3-match and total winners was the lowest ever in the history of the lottery.
• The 5+bonus, 5-match, 4-match and total prize pools were the second lowest ever, whilst the 3-match prize pool was even worse and hit its lowest size since the lottery began.
• I had an embarrassing ISDN failure with this draw - it was disconnecting me for two minutes at a time prior to the draw. I'd only just completed initial post-draw stats generation when the ISDN decided to give up the ghost for over an hour, although at least that gave me a chance to have my dinner...
• A small nugget of comfort was gained when I saw that BBC teletext page 557 was initially claiming that the 5+bonus prize was £826,293 (which would have been an all-time record for such a prize...if it was true of course), although they did fix this amusing error later in the evening.
• One match for me on my third and fourth tickets and nothing on my first and second tickets meant that this was the first midweek draw where I'd failed to win :-(
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 18th August 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #122 (Saturday 22nd February 1997) [8 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #120 (Saturday 15th February 1997) [19 jackpot winners]

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