UK National Lottery #128

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 15th March 1997:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,508,273	6	£9,049,638	32.8%
5+bonus	£107,096	26	£2,784,496	10.1%
5 match	£2,197	792	£1,740,024	6.3%
4 match	£73	52,272	£3,815,856	13.8%
3 match	£10	1,021,104	£10,211,040	37.0%
Totals	1,074,200		£27,601,054	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		2.9% fall	£11,176,667	12.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		1.4% fall	£77,074,523	87.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.0% fall	£61,364,875	69.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		3.0% fall	£26,886,315	30.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.6% fall	£88,251,190	85.6% of combined sales
Instants sales		1.3% rise	£14,863,336	14.4% of combined sales
Combined sales		1.2% fall	£103,114,526
Good causes		6.7% fall	£25,943,268.68	25.2% 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	43	17	4	21	3	14	3
2nd	39	11	1	12	2	15	2
3rd	37	10	2	12	23	11	11
4th	24	12	4	16	3	23	3
5th	07	17	3	20	3	43	3
6th	40	14	2	16	16	5	5
Bonus	15	13	3	16	28	10	10
Total	205	94	19	113	78	121	37
Avg.	29.3	13.4	2.7	16.1	11.1	17.3	5.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.69. One in every 57.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.75% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,934,054.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.

The main number 37 is now the second rarest such number after appearing for the 10th time, leaving the number 19 at the bottom with one less appearance (and hence the only number left not to have appeared at least 10 times).

Even more remarkably, the winning numbers 37 and 39 both moved off the bottom of the frequency table with their 12th appearances, leaving just the number 19 on its own at the bottom with one less appearance.

Ticket sales continued to plunge for the sixth consecutive Saturday (which has never happened before) and have hit their lowest Saturday draw level for over two years.

The disastrous ticket sales meant that the total prize pool was also the lowest for a Saturday draw with a won jackpot for over two years.

No match on my first ticket and only one on my second continues a worrying losing streak of 9 draws.

A 5+bonus prize of £107,096 won by a ticket bought in the Wealdon, East Sussex area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.

£1,258,533 of unclaimed prizes (3.17% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 11th September 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #129 (Wednesday 19th March 1997) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #127 (Wednesday 12th March 1997) [2 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #128

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 15th March 1997:

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Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.58am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020