UK National Lottery #80
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 25th May 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £2,054,754 5 £10,273,770 32.8%
5+bonus £137,441 23 £3,161,143 10.1%
5 match £1,013 1,950 £1,975,350 6.3%
4 match £58 73,917 £4,287,186 13.7%
3 match £10 1,164,449 £11,644,490 37.1%
Totals 1,240,344 £31,341,939 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Lucky Dip sales 11.1% rise £5,809,030 8.3% of ticket sales
Manual sales 0.8% fall £63,972,628 91.7% of ticket sales
Ticket sales 0.1% rise £69,781,658 78.3% of combined sales
Instants sales 9.6% rise £19,289,014 21.7% of combined sales
Combined sales 2.0% rise £89,070,672
Good causes 4.4% rise £23,781,940.68 26.7% 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 08 7 1 8 23 58 23
2nd 26 12 1 13 3 39 3
3rd 42 13 0 13 15 Never 15
4th 20 6 3 9 37 24 24
5th 34 9 1 10 2 59 2
6th 43 10 2 12 9 8 8
Bonus 25 12 2 14 3 19 3
Total 198 69 10 79 92 287 78
Avg. 28.3 9.9 1.4 11.3 13.1 41.0 11.1
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 7 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.27.
One in every 56.3 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 £8,664,655.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included no wins.
- Over 200 millionaires have now been created by the lottery.
- The appearance of number 20 established the second longest
period (of 36 weeks) without
appearing as a main number. This now means that the number 36 takes over
as the main number which hasn't
appeared
as a main number for longest period (33 weeks) since this draw.
- Similarly, the number 20's appearance has left the numbers 36 and 39
as custodians of the longest period (21 weeks) since they last
appeared as
one of the 7 winning numbers drawn.
- One of the jackpot winners (allegedly the deceased husband of an
83-year-old widow)
expired and ended up in the National Lottery
Distribution Fund - the largest prize to do so to date.
A terminally ill 63-year-old Hull man, Brian Hay,
tried a hoax claim only seconds before the deadline !
- Because of this expired jackpot, the
unclaimed prizes for this draw
totalled nearly £3m, which was more than twice the previous
record from 16 months ago.
- One match on each of my tickets as I fail to win for the 20th
successive draw.
- A jackpot prize of £2,054,754 won by a ticket bought in the Hull area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
- £2,948,860 of unclaimed prizes (9.41% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 21st November 1996 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
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