UK National Lottery #146

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 17th May 1997:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,324,408	5	£6,622,040	25.0%
5+bonus	£42,449	48	£2,037,552	7.7%
5 match	£605	2,102	£1,271,710	4.8%
4 match	£30	92,901	£2,787,030	10.5%
3 match	£10	1,375,052	£13,750,520	52.0%
Totals	1,470,108		£26,468,852	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		1.3% fall	£10,921,143	12.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		0.5% fall	£73,566,457	87.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.4% fall	£58,856,046	69.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.2% rise	£25,631,554	30.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.6% fall	£84,487,600	84.1% of combined sales
Instants sales		7.4% rise	£15,928,307	15.9% of combined sales
Combined sales		0.6% rise	£100,415,907
Good causes		1.6% fall	£27,473,017.03	27.4% 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	09	18	4	22	9	31	9
2nd	02	18	3	21	1	2	1
3rd	13	16	4	20	17	5	5
4th	18	16	0	16	33	Never	33
5th	27	18	1	19	6	117	6
6th	48	23	3	26	9	39	9
Bonus	24	14	5	19	5	41	5
Total	141	123	20	143	80	381	68
Avg.	20.1	17.6	2.9	20.4	11.4	54.4	9.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.00. One in every 40.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.50% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,049,022.

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

The winning number 18 had failed for appear for 32 consecutive draws prior to being drawn today (the third longest absence ever), which now leaves the winning number 26, also ironically with an absence of 32 consecutive draws, the one that has currently failed to be drawn as one of the 7 numbers for the longest period.

Exactly 1,000 out of a possible 1,176 main number pairs have been drawn since the lottery began.

Ticket sales slumped to their lowest level for a Saturday draw since January 1995.

The jackpot prize pool was the third lowest of any Saturday draw to date.

I matched one number on my first ticket and none on my second, which seems to be a depressingly familiar losing pattern recently. Frustratingly, my fourth ticket (which I only buy for Super Draws or rollovers) would have won £10 if I'd have bought it.

£1,299,393 of unclaimed prizes (3.42% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 13th November 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #147 (Wednesday 21st May 1997) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #145 (Wednesday 14th May 1997) [7 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #146

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 17th 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