UK National Lottery #181 (Super Draw #20)

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 17th September 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £5,000,000           1    £5,000,000      36.9%
5+bonus        £80,644          14    £1,129,016       8.3%
5 match         £1,520         464      £705,280       5.2%
4 match            £57      27,190    £1,549,830      11.5%
3 match            £10     515,880    £5,158,800      38.1%
Totals                     543,549   £13,542,926     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             2.1% rise   £27,144,972   

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       40        26       3       29       1       38        1 
2nd       44        35       6       41       7        1        1 
3rd       20        22       8       30       2        6        2 
4th       07        20       4       24       6       19        6 
5th       21        19       5       24      16       39       16 
6th       22        24       5       29       3       36        3 
Bonus     04        22       3       25       7       17        7 
Total    158       168      34      202      42      156       36
Avg.      22.6      24.0     4.9     28.9     6.0     22.3      5.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.92. One in every 49.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.00% of players).
• This was the 20th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £5,000,000.
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,309,026.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
• The number 44 strengthened its grip at the top of the frequency tables by making its 35th appearance as a main number (a lead of 4) and its 41st appearance as a winning number (a lead of 3).
• The last time there was a main number triple was exactly 50 draws ago - the longest gap between such triples ever.
• I matched one number of my first ticket and nothing on the other three, so no surprise there.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 16th March 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #182 (Saturday 20th September 1997) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #180 (Saturday 13th September 1997) [2 jackpot winners]

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