UK National Lottery #140

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 26th April 1997:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,331,391	6	£7,988,346	29.6%
5+bonus	£63,024	39	£2,457,936	9.1%
5 match	£973	1,578	£1,535,394	5.7%
4 match	£47	71,510	£3,360,970	12.5%
3 match	£10	1,164,621	£11,646,210	43.1%
Totals	1,237,754		£26,988,856	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		0.5% rise	£11,299,928	13.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		0.2% fall	£74,434,101	86.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.1% fall	£60,018,699	70.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.0% rise	£25,715,330	30.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.1% fall	£85,734,029	84.0% of combined sales
Instants sales		16.9% rise	£16,365,370	16.0% of combined sales
Combined sales		2.3% rise	£102,099,399
Good causes		2.3% rise	£28,561,612.59	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.

		Updated Frequencies			Since Last Appeared
Drawn	Order	Main	Bonus	Total	Main	Bonus	Either
1st	10	13	2	15	7	83	7
2nd	06	16	3	19	3	72	3
3rd	14	21	4	25	2	16	2
4th	25	23	5	28	2	3	2
5th	27	17	1	18	4	111	4
6th	38	19	1	20	17	105	17
Bonus	05	25	6	31	7	36	7
Total	125	134	22	156	42	426	42
Avg.	17.9	19.1	3.1	22.3	6.0	60.9	6.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.80. One in every 48.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.06% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,658,313.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.

The number 5 has extended its lead to three at the top of the winning number frequency table by appearing for the 31st time. The number 25 has joined the second-placed number 44 in that table.

The number 5 also became only the second number (45 was the first) to have been drawn six times as a bonus number.

The winning number pair 05, 25 has now appeared 9 times since the lottery began, which is once more than three other chasing pairs (which now include the pair 05, 14).

All ball colours have now appeared at least 150 times as drawn main balls.

The final four main numbers drawn out were also the highest four main numbers in that order after sorting the six numbers into ascending order, which was the first time this had happened.

I matched nothing on my first ticket and two numbers on my second ticket, continuing my dismal losing run.

A 5+bonus prize of £63,024 won by a ticket bought in the Leeds area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.

£1,137,579 of unclaimed prizes (2.95% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 23rd October 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #141 (Wednesday 30th April 1997) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #139 (Wednesday 23rd April 1997) [5 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #140

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 26th April 1997:

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