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UK National Lottery #209
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 24th December 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £2,491,514 | 2 | £4,983,028 | 31.1% |
| 5+bonus | £255,539 | 6 | £1,533,234 | 9.5% |
| 5 match | £1,386 | 691 | £957,726 | 6.0% |
| 4 match | £57 | 36,750 | £2,094,750 | 13.1% |
| 3 match | £10 | 645,604 | £6,456,040 | 40.3% |
| Totals | 683,053 | £16,024,778 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure |
| Ticket sales | 23.7% rise | £35,641,748 |
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 6 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.46.
One in every 52.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.92% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,103,365.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
- The number 5 appeared as a main
number for the 35th time and as a winning number
for the 42nd time, which narrowed the gap to 3 to the
main number frequency table
leader (the number 44) and to 2 in the
winning number table
(to the number 44 again).
- It was the 9th time that the number 47 has
been a bonus number,
which makes it the joint leader with the number 20.
- Ticket sales were the highest ever for
a normal Wednesday draw. This naturally meant that all
prize pool categories were also the
highest for a normal Wednesday draw.
- I matched one number on first ticket and two numbers
on my second as I failed to receive any seasonal luck.
- A 5+bonus prize of £255,539 won by a ticket bought in the Manchester area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 22nd June 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #210 (Saturday 27th December 1997) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #208 (Saturday 20th December 1997) [2 jackpot winners]
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