Euro Millions #1 (Super Draw #1)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Friday 13th February 2004:

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

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.

Comments:

• The draw used the Stresa1 (main) and Paquerette3 (Lucky Star) machines and the average UK prize was £14.46.
• This was the 1st Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed 15,000,000 Euros (£10,143,000.00).
• At the time of the draw, tickets cost £1.50 each in the UK (1.50 Euros in non-UK countries) and one Euro was worth 67.62 pence. This therefore meant that 14.76 pence of every UK ticket sold was added to the non-jackpot UK prize pool to compensate.
• The pan-European total prize pool was 26,560,509 Euros (£17,960,216) and the pan-European ticket sales were 53,121,018 Euros (£35,920,432). Eagle-eyed visitors will notice that those ticket sales are actually less than a normal UK main Lotto Saturday draw !
• The first show aired live on Sky One (only available to about 30% of UK's Euro Millions players, which isn't an auspicious start) and was presented by Irish woman Liz Bonnin (who has previously presented "Tellybingo" on Irish TV) from a UK TV studio. Two minutes were then spent plugging a Sky competition that had absolutely nothing to do with the draw at all (the answer was "B. Kiefer Sutherland", just to spoil their cheeky competition) and then the show went over to Paris, France. No onscreen presenter or audience could be seen or heard which made the proceedings less than thrilling (a looping dance backing was audible to try and liven up things).

  Liz Bonnin proceeded to make some elemental goofs as she did the voiceover:

  "Sixteen, 1 and 6, sixteen" (no, this isn't bingo and no, I don't think 60 [pronunciation] or 91 [upside down] can be drawn in this game either).

  "Ball number 4 is...number 41" (fatal faux pas - don't number the sequence of the balls !).

  "And now here's the final number....[long pause]....from this machine" (out rolls 36, which of course isn't the final number - 9 and 7 followed).

  "On Euro Millions there are 12 possible winning combinations" (12 prize tiers maybe, but over 3 million possible winning combinations actually).

• I don't particularly want to have to track all the French and Spanish prize tiers/winners for every single Euro Millions draw, but it's definitely worth doing a one-off analysis of them. Using figures from Camelot's official site and the (better) official French and Spanish sites, here's the number of winners split between the countries:

  Category   UK Winners     French Winners     Spanish Winners
  5+2             0                  1                   0
  5+1             0                  1                   0                  
  5               1                  4                   0
  4+2             7                 51                  11
  4+1            72                791                 150
  4              95              1,219                 198
  3+2           207              1,982                 456
  3+1         3,122             32,272               6,572
  2+2         3,322             28,147               6,624
  3           4,441             49,346               8,421
  1+2        18,725            167,687              36,043
  2+1        49,655            456,333              94,566
  Totals     79,647            737,834             153,041
  Percentage  8.2%              76.0%               15.8%
  

  This is perhaps the most shocking revelation of all - the Spanish bought nearly twice as many tickets as UK players, whilst the French went berserk and bought more than nine times as many tickets as UK players. I suspect the double rollover main UK lotto won't have helped UK sales, but even so, this appears to have been a very poor start on the UK side of things.
• Sorry, but Camelot haven't told me what the 5+1 unwon UK prize is yet (no, their official site doesn't have it either), but the figure may be revealed at some point. And, yes, they are paying out to the nearest 10 pence (unlike the official site, which initially wrongly rounded up to the nearest pound and, because of that fault, they pulled all the Euro Millions prizes and winners info from the site completely between Saturday and Tuesday !).

Next Lottery: #2 (Friday 20th February 2004) [No jackpot winners]

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