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UK National Lottery #97
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 21st September 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £10,101,049 1 £10,101,049 32.8%
5+bonus £182,824 17 £3,108,008 10.1%
5 match £2,151 903 £1,942,353 6.3%
4 match £79 53,547 £4,230,213 13.8%
3 match £10 1,138,159 £11,381,590 37.0%
Totals 1,192,627 £30,763,213 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Lucky Dip sales 26.6% rise £7,098,479 10.4% of ticket sales
Manual sales 1.3% fall £61,360,820 89.6% of ticket sales
Ticket sales 1.0% rise £68,459,299 80.3% of combined sales
Instants sales 0.2% fall £16,833,511 19.7% of combined sales
Combined sales 0.8% rise £85,292,810
Good causes 2.7% fall £22,843,802.72 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 41 14 3 17 6 2 2
2nd 35 11 0 11 12 Never 12
3rd 08 9 1 10 4 75 4
4th 07 13 3 16 13 12 12
5th 30 14 2 16 26 30 26
6th 12 13 1 14 10 23 10
Bonus 47 12 2 14 3 54 3
Total 180 86 12 98 74 293 69
Avg. 25.7 12.3 1.7 14.0 10.6 41.9 9.9
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 7 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.79.
One in every 57.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.74% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,284,147.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- There was a minor computer graphics malfunction on the live
TV show this week. The estimated prize fund of
£30.8m didn't appear initially and only the digits "3" and "0" were
eventually displayed just as the overlay panel decided to scroll off the
bottom of the screen ! Worse was to come as the estimated jackpot figure
of £9.7m completely failed to appear, leaving just a blank overlay panel.
- The winning number pair
07, 35 is now the tenth such
pair to have appeared 6 times since the
lottery began.
- The
Lucky Dip sales zoomed up to an
all-time high for a "normal" week (about £1.3m higher than the
typical figure for the past 2 months) and exceeded 10% of
ticket sales for the first time ever.
This was probably due to Camelot
releasing info the previous week about 2 jackpot winners who both won
via Lucky Dip, which encouraged the public to try it more than usual.
- No matches on either of my tickets for the second week running and
it made more painful by the fact that if this draw was a rollover,
I would have £10
with my fourth choice ticket.
- £842,748 of unclaimed prizes (2.74% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 20th March 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #98 (Saturday 28th September 1996) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #96 (Saturday 14th September 1996) [5 jackpot winners]
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