UK National Lottery #144

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 10th May 1997:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,632,327	2	£7,264,654	27.1%
5+bonus	£62,091	36	£2,235,276	8.4%
5 match	£1,428	978	£1,396,584	5.2%
4 match	£44	68,367	£3,008,148	11.2%
3 match	£10	1,287,915	£12,879,150	48.1%
Totals	1,357,298		£26,783,812	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		0.9% fall	£11,067,781	13.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		0.7% rise	£73,915,621	87.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.7% rise	£59,665,871	70.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.1% fall	£25,317,531	29.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.5% rise	£84,983,402	85.1% of combined sales
Instants sales		9.0% fall	£14,824,764	14.9% of combined sales
Combined sales		1.0% fall	£99,808,166
Good causes		1.0% fall	£27,920,655.74	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	44	25	4	29	8	35	8
2nd	25	24	5	29	4	7	4
3rd	22	18	4	22	9	18	9
4th	23	17	3	20	5	32	5
5th	12	21	2	23	1	17	1
6th	19	13	2	15	1	104	1
Bonus	02	16	3	19	20	57	20
Total	147	134	23	157	48	270	48
Avg.	21.0	19.1	3.3	22.4	6.9	38.6	6.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.73. One in every 44.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.27% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,617,008.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.

The number 44 has joined the number 5 at the top of the main number frequency table with its 25th appearance as one of the 6 drawn balls.

The number 21 is now on its own at the bottom of the main number frequency table thanks to the 13th appearance of the number 19.

Similarly, the number 39 is also stranded alone at the bottom of the winning number frequency table after the number 19 appeared for the 15th time as one of the 7 balls drawn.

The numbers 25 and 44 have moved to within two of the number 5 with their 29th winning number appearances.

The winning number 18 has now failed to appear for 31 consecutive draws, which is the joint third longest such absence since the lottery began.

Six ticket combinations have now won 13 or more prizes since the lottery began.

Yellow has become the first ball colour to make 200 main number appearances.

I matched one number on my first ticket and none on my second as my bad run continues (hopefully it won't be a year before my next win !).

£1,339,738 of unclaimed prizes (3.51% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 6th November 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #145 (Wednesday 14th May 1997) [7 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #143 (Wednesday 7th May 1997) [14 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #144

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 10th May 1997:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.58am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020