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UK National Lottery #131
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.27pm GMT on Wednesday 26th March 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £3,707,127 0 £0 0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus £51,847 22 £1,140,634 13.5%
5 match £1,381 516 £712,596 8.4%
4 match £50 31,169 £1,558,450 18.4%
3 match £10 504,854 £5,048,540 59.7%
Totals 536,561 £8,460,220 100.0%
Category Change Figure
Ticket sales 1.6% rise £27,061,405
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 24 13 4 17 3 26 3
2nd 44 23 4 27 8 22 8
3rd 43 19 4 23 1 17 1
4th 42 22 0 22 5 Never 5
5th 33 17 2 19 7 30 7
6th 47 19 4 23 11 12 11
Bonus 17 17 2 19 2 83 2
Total 250 130 20 150 37 321 37
Avg. 35.7 18.6 2.9 21.4 5.3 45.9 5.3
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 3 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £15.77.
One in every 50.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.98% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,481,453.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £73.
- The main number 44 made its
23rd such appearance today
and is now only one behind the current leader, the number 5.
- As a winning number, 44 has also progressed to within two of the
leader (the number 5 again) by
appearing for the
27th time.
- The winning number pair 17, 42 has joined the pair
34, 47 as being the only winning number pairs to have
appeared
8 times in the lottery to date.
- The main number triple 24, 42, 47 has become only
the 7th such triple to been drawn three times since the
lottery began.
- The winning number triple 24, 42, 44 has now appeared
four times in the history of the lottery, a feat only managed
by one other such triple (33, 34, 47).
- This was only the second time that two consecutive draws had
a consecutive main number triple.
- Remarkably, the ticket
24 33 34 42 44 47 has become the first one to win both a 5-match prize (in this draw)
and a 5+bonus prize (in draw #109).
- Poor old Carol Vorderman ! She chose this draw's
TV show to
show that clusters at the high end had become more popular
amongst the public recently, only for this draw to have a
consecutive number triple and four numbers in the 40's, but have
no jackpot winner and the 3rd lowest number of 3-match winners
ever !
- The unwon jackpot amount was the lowest ever to roll over to
the next draw.
- This draw had the third lowest 5+bonus, 5-match, 4-match and
3-match prize pools and
the second lowest ever total prize pool.
- This was really agonising for me - I matched two numbers and
was one out twice on my first ticket and had exactly the same
performance on my second ticket... painful or what ?
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 22nd September 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
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