UK National Lottery #207

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 17th December 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,825,949           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus       £212,129           7    £1,484,903      18.3%
5 match         £2,786         333      £927,738      11.4%
4 match           £110      18,407    £2,024,770      24.9%
3 match            £10     368,702    £3,687,020      45.4%
Totals                     387,449    £8,124,431     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             2.9% fall   £28,817,093   

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       36        25       5       30       4       68        4 
2nd       35        26       0       26       9     Never       9 
3rd       49        22       2       24       3       57        3 
4th       17        29       4       33       2        6        2 
5th       46        21       7       28       5        1        1 
6th       43        33       5       38      20        3        3 
Bonus     07        21       5       26      20       45       20 
Total    233       177      28      205      63      387       42
Avg.      33.3      25.3     4.0     29.3     9.0     55.3      6.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.97. One in every 74.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.34% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,553,663.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £50.
• This draw had the second lowest number of 4-match, 3-match and total winners ever. This naturally also meant that it also had the second lowest 3-match prize pool since the lottery began.
• I matched one number on each of my two tickets as another midweek draw failure passed me by.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 15th June 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #208 (Saturday 20th December 1997) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #206 (Saturday 13th December 1997) [2 jackpot winners]

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