UK National Lottery #210

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 27th December 1997:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,868,377	3	£8,605,131	32.5%
5+bonus	£73,548	36	£2,647,728	10.0%
5 match	£1,612	1,026	£1,653,912	6.3%
4 match	£69	52,284	£3,607,596	13.6%
3 match	£10	995,507	£9,955,070	37.6%
Totals	1,048,856		£26,469,437	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		21.9% fall	£17,979,484	19.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		6.2% fall	£76,558,714	81.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		22.4% fall	£58,896,450	62.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		23.7% rise	£35,641,748	37.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		9.7% fall	£94,538,198	88.7% of combined sales
Instants sales		22.0% fall	£12,103,022	11.3% of combined sales
Combined sales		11.3% fall	£106,641,220
Good causes		17.0% fall	£27,974,051.23	26.2% 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	31	29	6	35	27	17	17
2nd	14	32	5	37	4	2	2
3rd	21	24	5	29	6	68	6
4th	28	31	7	38	10	8	8
5th	40	33	3	36	14	67	14
6th	46	22	7	29	3	4	3
Bonus	09	29	5	34	6	95	6
Total	189	200	38	238	70	261	56
Avg.	27.0	28.6	5.4	34.0	10.0	37.3	8.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.24. One in every 56.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.78% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,449,304.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £50.

The main number pair 21, 40 has now appeared 8 times since the lottery began, a feat only managed by 3 other such pairs to date.

More of a surprise is that three winning number pairs (21,40, 28, 46 and 31, 40) have now joined two others at the top of the frequency table by appearing for the 10th time each.

Continuing the theme, two more winning number triples (09, 28, 31 and 21, 31, 40) have joined the existing 11 other such triples to have appeared four times in the history of the lottery.

One ticket combination has now won 17 prizes in the 210 draws to date.

Scratchcard sales suffered the second largest percentage drop ever this week to hit their lowest full weekly sales figure since they were launched.

This week's Lucky Dip sales were the highest ever for a normal week.

This was the 10th consecutive week that over £1 million of prizes had remained unclaimed for 180 days, which has never happened before.

I matched 2 numbers on my first ticket and one on my second, so I lost either side of Christmas, predictably.

£1,566,444 of unclaimed prizes (3.69% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 25th June 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #211 (Wednesday 31st December 1997) [6 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #209 (Wednesday 24th December 1997) [2 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #210

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 27th December 1997:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.56am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020