UK National Lottery #28 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm BST on Saturday 27th May 1995:

12 13 25 37 44 45 (09)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 5th single rollover draw, included £9,467,258 (47.6%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £10,407,595 (52.4%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £6,624,951           3   £19,874,853      46.1%
5+bonus       £133,430          24    £3,202,320       7.4%
5 match         £2,271         881    £2,000,751       4.7%
4 match            £66      66,499    £4,388,934      10.2%
3 match            £10   1,363,268   £13,632,680      31.6%
Totals                   1,430,675   £43,099,538     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales            20.0% rise   £74,771,757     62.7% of combined sales
Instants sales           0.5% rise   £44,437,670     37.3% of combined sales
Combined sales          11.9% rise  £119,209,427   
Good causes             13.4% rise   £31,925,524.33  26.8% 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       45         2       0        2      14     Never      14 
2nd       12         3       0        3      12     Never      12 
3rd       25         5       0        5       2     Never       2 
4th       37         2       1        3      16       26       16 
5th       44         6       0        6       9     Never       9 
6th       13         3       1        4      11       12       11 
Bonus     09         4       1        5       4     Never       4 
Total    185        25       3       28      68      178       68
Avg.      26.4       3.6     0.4      4.0     9.7     25.4      9.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.13. One in every 52.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.91% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,266,033.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included no wins.
This was the first time there were two sets of two consecutive main numbers drawn.
Another first time record was set - 3 or more people had never won more than £5,000,000 each before this draw. In fact, it more than the doubled the previous record holder's £3.1m each (Lottery #25).
The scratchcard sales hit a new record level of £44.44m, which is unlikely to be beaten for some considerable time. It also meant that May 1995 was (and still is) the only month to have all weekly scratchcard sales figures in excess £40m. Needless to say, the combined sales also reached a new high.
Ouch - another close shave with my first ticket: two numbers matched and another one was just one out. The second ticket had a single match as well.
£953,542 of unclaimed prizes (2.21% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 23rd November 1995 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #29 (Saturday 3rd June 1995) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #27 (Saturday 20th May 1995) [No jackpot winners]

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