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UK National Lottery #136
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 12th April 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £860,199 | 8 | £6,881,592 | 25.5% |
| 5+bonus | £70,580 | 30 | £2,117,400 | 7.8% |
| 5 match | £654 | 2,021 | £1,321,734 | 4.9% |
| 4 match | £32 | 90,642 | £2,900,544 | 10.8% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,374,794 | £13,747,940 | 51.0% |
| Totals | 1,467,495 | £26,969,210 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Lucky Dip (S+W) | 2.6% fall | £11,344,741 | 13.2% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Manual sales (S+W) | 1.7% fall | £74,515,533 | 86.8% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Ticket sales (Sat) | 1.9% fall | £59,959,500 | 69.8% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Ticket sales (Wed) | 1.5% fall | £25,900,774 | 30.2% of Sat+Wed sales |
| Ticket sales (S+W) | 1.8% fall | £85,860,274 | 85.7% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 1.3% rise | £14,358,375 | 14.3% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 1.4% fall | £100,218,649 | |
| Good causes | 9.3% rise | £28,035,485.57 | 28.0% 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 3 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.38.
One in every 40.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.45% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,189,334.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- The main numbers 42 and
44 both moved to within one
appearance of the most frequent such
number (5) by being drawn as one of the six numbers for the 24th
time.
- The winning number 44 is now only two
appearances
behind the most common number (5 again),
thanks to it being drawn for the 28th time.
- At the other end of the frequency tables, the number
37 made its 11th appearance as a main number and its 13th as
a winning number, pulling it away from the bottom
position it was sharing in both tables with the number 19.
- The main number 15 has now failed to appear for 36 consecutive
draws, which is the joint third longest such
absence ever.
- The main number pair 42, 44 is one of only seven such pairs
to have appeared six or more times since the
lottery began. It is also only the sixth winning number pair to have been
drawn
more than six times in the history of the lottery.
- This draw had the joint second lowest 4-match
prize ever.
- It was the first time in over
2 years that the
ticket sales
for a Saturday draw were below £60m.
- I apologise for the delayed updates and comments, which were
due to the fact that I was in Philadelphia, PA during this draw, attending an
HP-UX conference.
- I matched two numbers and was twice one out from matching a third
number on my first ticket, whilst I matched one number and was again twice
one out from matching two other numbers on my second ticket. I may have been
very close to a win, but it still meant that I've failed to win in exactly
two months now :-(
- £1,283,814 of unclaimed prizes (3.33% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 9th October 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
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