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UK National Lottery #171 (Super Draw #15)
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.27pm BST on Wednesday 13th August 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £1,666,667 | 3 | £5,000,001 | 36.5% |
| 5+bonus | £49,435 | 22 | £1,087,570 | 7.9% |
| 5 match | £916 | 742 | £679,672 | 4.9% |
| 4 match | £43 | 34,087 | £1,465,741 | 10.7% |
| 3 match | £10 | 547,947 | £5,479,470 | 40.0% |
| Totals | 582,801 | £13,712,454 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure |
| Ticket sales | 1.2% fall | £27,281,835 |
The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.53.
One in every 46.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.14% of players).
- This was the 15th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £5,000,001.
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,750,213.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £78.
- The number 5 has closed the
gap to the leading number 44 in both the
main (30th appearance, 3 behind) and
winning (36th appearance, 2 behind)
number frequency tables.
- The number 45 is only the second bonus number to have
appeared seven times since the
lottery began.
- The number 46 has now failed to
appear as one of the winning seven
numbers for 37 consecutive draws, which is
the joint second longest such
absence ever.
- The main number triple
05, 17, 43 is one of only 14 such
triples to have appeared three times in
the history of the lottery.
- Agonisingly, I matched one number on my first ticket, two numbers on
each of my second (a third number was one out) and third tickets and nothing
on my fourth ticket to continue my relentless progress towards a
record-breaking losing sequence.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 9th February 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #172 (Saturday 16th August 1997) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #170 (Saturday 9th August 1997) [3 jackpot winners]
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