UK National Lottery #162

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 12th July 1997:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,687,158	2	£7,374,316	28.1%
5+bonus	£68,758	33	£2,269,014	8.6%
5 match	£1,325	1,070	£1,417,750	5.4%
4 match	£45	67,905	£3,055,725	11.6%
3 match	£10	1,216,670	£12,166,700	46.3%
Totals	1,285,680		£26,283,505	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		0.0% fall	£15,712,952	16.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		0.2% rise	£81,554,421	83.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.8% fall	£58,551,284	60.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.6% rise	£38,716,089	39.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.2% rise	£97,267,373	84.3% of combined sales
Instants sales		4.5% fall	£18,120,439	15.7% of combined sales
Combined sales		0.6% fall	£115,387,812
Good causes		5.9% fall	£32,339,880.53	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	45	22	6	28	3	37	3
2nd	44	31	4	35	2	53	2
3rd	09	21	4	25	4	47	4
4th	04	20	1	21	2	152	2
5th	27	21	2	23	5	4	4
6th	37	15	2	17	17	45	17
Bonus	07	17	4	21	34	77	34
Total	173	147	23	170	67	415	66
Avg.	24.7	21.0	3.3	24.3	9.6	59.3	9.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.44. One in every 45.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.20% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,553,841.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £42.

The number 44 has stretched its lead to three at the top of the main number frequency table after its 31st appearance and has also taken the outright lead in the winning number frequency table having appeared for the 35th time.

The winning number 7 finally turned up after an absence of 33 consecutive draws, leaving the number 15 to continue the sequence and tie with the number 29 for the second-longest such absence (34 consecutive draws) ever.

The main number pair 27, 44 is one of only six such pairs to have appeared 7 times since the lottery began.

Six ticket combinations have now won 14 prizes in the history of the lottery.

All-time on-line ticket sales have now exceeded £10 billion, a fact completely ignored by the lottery TV show.

Lucky Dip sales for this week were the second highest ever.

I had one match on each of my two tickets predictably, so there's another £2 in the debit column...

A 5+bonus prize of £68,758 won by a ticket bought in the Lancaster City Council area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.

£1,409,177 of unclaimed prizes (2.68% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 8th January 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #163 (Wednesday 16th July 1997) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #161 (Wednesday 9th July 1997) [5 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #162

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 12th July 1997:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.57am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020