UK National Lottery #138

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 19th April 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,772,183           2    £9,544,366      35.3%
5+bonus       £195,781          15    £2,936,715      10.9%
5 match         £2,797         656    £1,834,832       6.8%
4 match            £96      41,635    £3,996,960      14.8%
3 match            £10     868,153    £8,681,530      32.2%
Totals                     910,461   £26,994,403     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      0.9% fall   £11,240,348     13.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.0% rise   £74,552,659     86.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.2% rise   £60,080,178     70.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.7% fall   £25,712,829     30.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.1% fall   £85,793,007     86.0% of combined sales
Instants sales           2.5% fall   £13,994,429     14.0% of combined sales
Combined sales           0.4% fall   £99,787,436   
Good causes              0.4% fall   £27,914,856.67  28.0% 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       32        15       1       16      35        9        9 
2nd       37        13       2       15       1       21        1 
3rd       14        20       4       24       8       14        8 
4th       01        14       3       17       4       42        4 
5th       16        21       4       25       9        3        3 
6th       25        22       5       27       5        1        1 
Bonus     11        18       3       21      17       60       17 
Total    136       123      22      145      79      150       43
Avg.      19.4      17.6     3.1     20.7    11.3     21.4      6.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 6 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £29.65. One in every 66.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.52% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,741,671.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.
• The ticket with the numbers 5, 14, 18, 25, 37 and 44 has become the first one to have won 14 prizes since the lottery began.
• There are now less than 100 winning number pairs that have never been drawn to date.
• There have been two jackpot winners for 5 of the last 6 draws, which hasn't happened before for any number of jackpot winners.
• Scratchcard sales dropped to their lowest level since the first week they were introduced (which was over two years ago).
• This was the first time that the combined sales dropped below £100m since the midweek draw began.
• I apologise for the delayed updates and comments, which were due to the fact that the ISDN Pipeline 50 box I had at home is now being used elsewhere, disabling my home Internet access.
• I matched nothing on my first ticket and only one number on my second ticket, notching up yet another loss.
• £968,177 of unclaimed prizes (2.51% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 16th October 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #139 (Wednesday 23rd April 1997) [5 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #137 (Wednesday 16th April 1997) [2 jackpot winners]

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