UK National Lottery #166

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

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,733,831	3	£8,201,493	31.3%
5+bonus	£93,464	27	£2,523,528	9.6%
5 match	£1,440	1,095	£1,576,800	6.0%
4 match	£60	57,066	£3,423,960	13.1%
3 match	£10	1,046,953	£10,469,530	40.0%
Totals	1,105,144		£26,195,311	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		0.8% fall	£12,334,178	14.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		0.2% fall	£73,627,058	85.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.7% rise	£58,314,746	67.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		2.3% fall	£27,646,490	32.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.3% fall	£85,961,236	82.8% of combined sales
Instants sales		2.7% rise	£17,811,256	17.2% of combined sales
Combined sales		0.2% rise	£103,772,492
Good causes		12.2% rise	£32,546,944.25	31.4% 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	27	23	2	25	1	8	1
2nd	15	14	3	17	66	38	38
3rd	41	21	4	25	7	6	6
4th	30	21	4	25	10	55	10
5th	09	22	4	26	4	51	4
6th	20	14	6	20	24	13	13
Bonus	31	23	2	25	13	163	13
Total	173	138	25	163	125	334	85
Avg.	24.7	19.7	3.6	23.3	17.9	47.7	12.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.70. One in every 52.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.90% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,595,022.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.

The numbers 15 and 20 were both the rarest main numbers prior to this draw and both made their 14th appearance today, moving them up to join the number 39 at the bottom of the frequency table.

The number 15 finally appeared as one of the main six balls, bringing an end to its all-time record sequence of 65 consecutive lotteries without being drawn. The new current record holder is now the main number 46, which hasn't appeared for 32 consecutive draws.

Eight ticket combinations have now won 14 prizes since the lottery began.

I predictably matched nothing on either of my two tickets as I resigned myself to yet another loss.

£1,143,860 of unclaimed prizes (2.86% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 22nd January 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #167 (Wednesday 30th July 1997) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #165 (Wednesday 23rd July 1997) [2 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #166

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 26th 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