UK National Lottery #123 (Super Draw #7)

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.27pm GMT on Wednesday 26th 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 2 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £36.83. One in every 69.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.45% of players).
• This was the 7th 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 £7,849,020.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included no wins.
• The number 44 finally turned up after not having been drawn as a main number for 28 draws, which hands the "current longest absence" title to the number 15, which has now failed to appear for 23 consecutive draws.
• Similarly, the appearance of the winning number 2 for the first time in 27 draws means that the number 32 is now the number that has failed to appear the longest (for 20 draws) as one of the 7 balls.
• The number 44 now joins the number 5 at the top of the main number frequency table with its 22nd appearance and has closed the gap to one to the number 5 at the top of the winning number table by appearing for the 26th time as one of the 7 drawn balls.
• The main number pair 02, 44 is now only one of six such pairs to have appeared six or more times since the lottery began.
• This was only the second time that the 6 main numbers were all even and that the 7 winning numbers were also all even.
• This draw had the 30th yellow bonus ball, which is the first colour to reach that number of bonus ball appearances.
• The number of 3-match, 4-match and total winners was the lowest ever and the number of 5-match winners was the third lowest to date.
• The 5+bonus, 5-match and 4-match prize pools were the third lowest in the history of the lottery, the total prize pool was the second lowest since the lottery began, but the 3-match prize pool fared the worst and dipped below £4m for the first time.
• Hmmm...BBC teletext suspiciously put only the jackpot line on their page 557 a minute or two after I put just that info in the newsflash (the rest of their categories were blank) - makes you wonder if they're studying my pages for the results ! I'd almost be tempted to make a mistake, see if they copy it and then change it back again once they have :-)
• My third lottery subscription (which cost me £208) started with this draw.
• I matched two numbers on my first ticket and one of my fourth, but none on my second and third tickets, so no win for me for a fortnight now.
• A 5+bonus prize of £203,951 won by a ticket bought in the Thurrock area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 25th August 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #124 (Saturday 1st March 1997) [20 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #122 (Saturday 22nd February 1997) [8 jackpot winners]

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