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UK National Lottery #146
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 17th May 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £1,324,408 5 £6,622,040 25.0%
5+bonus £42,449 48 £2,037,552 7.7%
5 match £605 2,102 £1,271,710 4.8%
4 match £30 92,901 £2,787,030 10.5%
3 match £10 1,375,052 £13,750,520 52.0%
Totals 1,470,108 £26,468,852 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W) 1.3% fall £10,921,143 12.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W) 0.5% fall £73,566,457 87.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat) 1.4% fall £58,856,046 69.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed) 1.2% rise £25,631,554 30.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W) 0.6% fall £84,487,600 84.1% of combined sales
Instants sales 7.4% rise £15,928,307 15.9% of combined sales
Combined sales 0.6% rise £100,415,907
Good causes 1.6% fall £27,473,017.03 27.4% 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 09 18 4 22 9 31 9
2nd 02 18 3 21 1 2 1
3rd 13 16 4 20 17 5 5
4th 18 16 0 16 33 Never 33
5th 27 18 1 19 6 117 6
6th 48 23 3 26 9 39 9
Bonus 24 14 5 19 5 41 5
Total 141 123 20 143 80 381 68
Avg. 20.1 17.6 2.9 20.4 11.4 54.4 9.7
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 8 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.00.
One in every 40.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.50% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,049,022.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
- The winning number 18 had failed for appear for 32 consecutive
draws prior to being drawn today (the third longest
absence
ever), which now leaves the winning number
26, also ironically with an absence of 32 consecutive draws, the
one that has currently failed to be drawn as one of the 7 numbers for the
longest period.
- Exactly 1,000 out of a possible 1,176 main number
pairs have been drawn since the lottery began.
- Ticket sales slumped to their lowest level
for a Saturday draw since January 1995.
- The jackpot
prize pool
was the third lowest of any Saturday draw to date.
- I matched one number on my first ticket and none on my second, which seems
to be a depressingly familiar losing pattern recently. Frustratingly, my
fourth ticket (which I only buy for Super Draws or rollovers) would
have won £10 if I'd have bought it.
- £1,299,393 of unclaimed prizes (3.42% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 13th November 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #147 (Wednesday 21st May 1997) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #145 (Wednesday 14th May 1997) [7 jackpot winners]
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