UK National Lottery #196

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 8th November 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £9,082,996           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus       £310,529           9    £2,794,761      16.1%
5 match         £2,268         770    £1,746,360      10.0%
4 match            £84      45,693    £3,838,212      22.1%
3 match            £10     900,742    £9,007,420      51.8%
Totals                     947,214   £17,386,753     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      3.4% rise   £14,757,065     17.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      1.0% fall   £72,079,552     83.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.0% fall   £58,832,714     67.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.9% fall   £28,003,903     32.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.3% fall   £86,836,617     84.6% of combined sales
Instants sales           6.6% rise   £15,837,768     15.4% of combined sales
Combined sales           0.7% rise  £102,674,385   
Good causes              0.5% rise   £28,886,807.24  28.1% 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       24        18       6       24       5       48        5 
2nd       34        23       7       30       8        4        4 
3rd       05        32       7       39      16       17       16 
4th       48        27       3       30      38       89       38 
5th       40        32       3       35       4       53        4 
6th       37        18       2       20       2       79        2 
Bonus     33        22       5       27       3        5        3 
Total    221       172      33      205      76      295       72
Avg.      31.6      24.6     4.7     29.3    10.9     42.1     10.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 6 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.36. One in every 62.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.61% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £1,641,485.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.
• The 20th appearance of the winning number 37 has widened the gap to three to the rarest winning number (39).
• The winning number 48 finally appeared after a 38-draw absence, heading over the mantle of longest absentee to the number 13, which has failed to appear as a winning number for 35 consecutive draws.
• I matched one number on my first ticket and nothing on my second ticket as another failed gamble passed by.
• £1,090,976 of unclaimed prizes (3.64% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 7th May 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #197 (Wednesday 12th November 1997) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #195 (Wednesday 5th November 1997) [4 jackpot winners]

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