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UK National Lottery #124
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 1st March 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £408,500 | 20 | £8,170,000 | 29.0% |
| 5+bonus | £23,493 | 107 | £2,513,751 | 8.9% |
| 5 match | £695 | 2,259 | £1,570,005 | 5.6% |
| 4 match | £43 | 80,110 | £3,444,730 | 12.2% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,250,102 | £12,501,020 | 44.3% |
| Totals | 1,332,598 | £28,199,506 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Lucky Dip (S+W) | 0.9% rise | £11,842,385 | 13.0% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Manual sales (S+W) | 0.2% fall | £79,423,468 | 87.0% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Ticket sales (Sat) | 0.2% fall | £62,694,583 | 68.7% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Ticket sales (Wed) | 0.3% rise | £28,571,270 | 31.3% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Ticket sales (S+W) | 0.1% fall | £91,265,853 | 85.0% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 1.0% fall | £16,052,390 | 15.0% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 0.2% fall | £107,318,243 | |
| Good causes | 6.3% rise | £28,607,781.11 | 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 1 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.16.
One in every 47.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.13% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,522,481.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- There have now been more than 200
winning
yellow balls since the lottery began. This is the first colour to break
through the double century barrier.
- The winning number triple 08, 23, 49 is now only one of
25 such triples to have appeared 3 or more times in the history of the
lottery.
- The number of jackpot
winners was the joint third highest
ever and the greatest for almost a year.
- The number of 5+bonus winners exceeded the century mark for only
the second time.
- The (won) individual jackpot
prize
was the third lowest since the lottery began. The 5+bonus individual
prize fared even worse and was the second lowest ever.
- The jackpot prize pool was
not only won of course, but was also
a multiple of £10,000, which has never happened in a normal
draw before. In fact, it's the only the third such time it's ever
happened, with the other two times being "artificial" multiples
(i.e. £7m Super Draw jackpot pools).
- Over £1 billion in
tax has been collected by the Government
from the online game since it started (12% of the total
ticket sales). This will be
officially confirmed shortly after
next Wednesday's
draw has taken place
because the sales for that draw
should have pushed the figure over £1 billion already.
- Camelot's phone lines jammed because of the high number of
5+bonus and jackpot winners (127 in all) - I couldn't get through
for about half an hour between 8.40pm and 9.10pm. BBC teletext got
the initial prize/winners figures through first, but they messed
up the number of 5-match winners (claiming it was 2,295 !).
- One match on my first ticket and none on my second, but even more
sickening was that if I had bought a third ticket (I didn't), it would
have matched 3 numbers and won £10 :-(
- A jackpot prize of £408,500 won by a ticket bought in the Warwickshire area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
- £1,806,111 of unclaimed prizes (4.16% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 28th August 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #125 (Wednesday 5th March 1997) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #123 (Wednesday 26th February 1997) [2 jackpot winners]
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