UK National Lottery #208 (Single Rollover Draw) (Super Draw #27)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm GMT on Saturday 20th December 1997:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 30th single rollover draw and the 33rd rollover in total, included £4,825,949 (19.3%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £20,174,051 (80.7%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£12,500,000	2	£25,000,000	52.7%
5+bonus	£224,490	16	£3,591,840	7.6%
5 match	£2,997	749	£2,244,753	4.7%
4 match	£92	53,106	£4,885,752	10.3%
3 match	£10	1,169,274	£11,692,740	24.7%
Totals	1,223,147		£47,415,085	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		46.1% rise	£23,030,707	22.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		11.0% rise	£81,657,139	78.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		27.3% rise	£75,870,753	72.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		2.9% fall	£28,817,093	27.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		17.2% rise	£104,687,846	87.1% of combined sales
Instants sales		2.1% rise	£15,515,354	12.9% of combined sales
Combined sales		15.0% rise	£120,203,200
Good causes		10.2% rise	£33,698,159.09	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	01	23	3	26	5	112	5
2nd	34	25	7	32	10	16	10
3rd	26	23	1	24	30	167	30
4th	38	30	2	32	3	22	3
5th	02	26	3	29	6	64	6
6th	07	22	5	27	21	1	1
Bonus	14	31	5	36	2	84	2
Total	122	180	26	206	77	466	57
Avg.	17.4	25.7	3.7	29.4	11.0	66.6	8.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £38.76. One in every 62.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.61% of players).

This was the 27th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £25,000,000.

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £926,976.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.

Arthur and ball set 2 were used together for a record 19th time, which is four more times than the next most popular machine/ball set pairing.

The individual jackpot prize was the highest ever for a Super Draw.

Super Draw ticket sales have now exceeded £1 billion.

This week's Lucky Dip sales were the third highest ever.

I matched nothing on my first three tickets and only one number on my fourth ticket, which was a dismal showing for this rollover Super Draw.

A 5+bonus prize of £224,490 won by a ticket bought in the Leeds area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.

£1,577,152 of unclaimed prizes (2.84% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 18th June 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #209 (Wednesday 24th December 1997) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #207 (Wednesday 17th December 1997) [No jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #208 (Single Rollover Draw) (Super Draw #27)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm GMT on Saturday 20th December 1997:

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