UK National Lottery #131

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.27pm GMT on Wednesday 26th March 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 £15.77. One in every 50.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.98% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,481,453.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £73.
• The main number 44 made its 23rd such appearance today and is now only one behind the current leader, the number 5.
• As a winning number, 44 has also progressed to within two of the leader (the number 5 again) by appearing for the 27th time.
• The winning number pair 17, 42 has joined the pair 34, 47 as being the only winning number pairs to have appeared 8 times in the lottery to date.
• The main number triple 24, 42, 47 has become only the 7th such triple to been drawn three times since the lottery began.
• The winning number triple 24, 42, 44 has now appeared four times in the history of the lottery, a feat only managed by one other such triple (33, 34, 47).
• This was only the second time that two consecutive draws had a consecutive main number triple.
• Remarkably, the ticket 24 33 34 42 44 47 has become the first one to win both a 5-match prize (in this draw) and a 5+bonus prize (in draw #109).
• Poor old Carol Vorderman ! She chose this draw's TV show to show that clusters at the high end had become more popular amongst the public recently, only for this draw to have a consecutive number triple and four numbers in the 40's, but have no jackpot winner and the 3rd lowest number of 3-match winners ever !
• The unwon jackpot amount was the lowest ever to roll over to the next draw.
• This draw had the third lowest 5+bonus, 5-match, 4-match and 3-match prize pools and the second lowest ever total prize pool.
• This was really agonising for me - I matched two numbers and was one out twice on my first ticket and had exactly the same performance on my second ticket... painful or what ?
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 22nd September 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #132 (Saturday 29th March 1997) [6 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #130 (Saturday 22nd March 1997) [3 jackpot winners]

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