UK National Lottery #139
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Wednesday 23rd April 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £583,805 5 £2,919,025 25.3%
5+bonus £26,416 34 £898,144 7.8%
5 match £465 1,207 £561,255 4.9%
4 match £28 43,110 £1,207,080 10.4%
3 match £10 595,838 £5,958,380 51.6%
Totals 640,194 £11,543,884 100.0%
Category Change Figure
Ticket sales 0.0% rise £25,715,330
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 23 16 3 19 15 27 15
2nd 34 17 4 21 16 23 16
3rd 12 19 2 21 13 12 12
4th 08 14 2 16 15 6 6
5th 17 20 2 22 6 8 6
6th 43 21 4 25 6 25 6
Bonus 36 14 5 19 7 37 7
Total 173 121 22 143 78 138 68
Avg. 24.7 17.3 3.1 20.4 11.1 19.7 9.7
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 4 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.03.
One in every 40.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.49% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,950,816.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- The second lowest
ticket sales ever meant that the record
books were re-written as follows:
- It was the first time that a won jackpot
prize pool dipped below £3m.
- The 5+bonus, 5-match and 4-match prize pools were also the lowest
in the history of the lottery.
- The total prize pool was the third lowest since the lottery began.
- The 5-match prize
was the third lowest to date.
- The 4-match prize slumped even further to be the second lowest such
individual prize ever.
- Last week's
scratchcard sales were below
£14m for the first time since the first week they were
introduced.
- Combined sales
for last week were below £100m for the first time since the
midweek draw started.
- There are now less than one million ticket
combinations that have failed to win
a prize in any of the 139 draws to date - this information is a
world exclusive.
- I didn't match any numbers on my first ticket and only one number on
my second ticket, which means I have now failed to win for 20 consecutive
draws.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 20th October 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #140 (Saturday 26th April 1997) [6 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #138 (Saturday 19th April 1997) [2 jackpot winners]