UK National Lottery #208 (Single Rollover Draw) (Super Draw #27)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm GMT on Saturday 20th December 1997:

01 02 07 26 34 38 (14)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 30th single rollover draw and the 33rd rollover in total, included £4,825,949 (19.3%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £20,174,051 (80.7%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot    £12,500,000           2   £25,000,000      52.7%
5+bonus       £224,490          16    £3,591,840       7.6%
5 match         £2,997         749    £2,244,753       4.7%
4 match            £92      53,106    £4,885,752      10.3%
3 match            £10   1,169,274   £11,692,740      24.7%
Totals                   1,223,147   £47,415,085     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)     46.1% rise   £23,030,707     22.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)     11.0% rise   £81,657,139     78.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)     27.3% rise   £75,870,753     72.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      2.9% fall   £28,817,093     27.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     17.2% rise  £104,687,846     87.1% of combined sales
Instants sales           2.1% rise   £15,515,354     12.9% of combined sales
Combined sales          15.0% rise  £120,203,200   
Good causes             10.2% rise   £33,698,159.09  28.0% 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       01        23       3       26       5      112        5 
2nd       34        25       7       32      10       16       10 
3rd       26        23       1       24      30      167       30 
4th       38        30       2       32       3       22        3 
5th       02        26       3       29       6       64        6 
6th       07        22       5       27      21        1        1 
Bonus     14        31       5       36       2       84        2 
Total    122       180      26      206      77      466       57
Avg.      17.4      25.7     3.7     29.4    11.0     66.6      8.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £38.76. One in every 62.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.61% of players).
This was the 27th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £25,000,000.
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £926,976.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.
Arthur and ball set 2 were used together for a record 19th time, which is four more times than the next most popular machine/ball set pairing.
The individual jackpot prize was the highest ever for a Super Draw.
Super Draw ticket sales have now exceeded £1 billion.
This week's Lucky Dip sales were the third highest ever.
I matched nothing on my first three tickets and only one number on my fourth ticket, which was a dismal showing for this rollover Super Draw.
A 5+bonus prize of £224,490 won by a ticket bought in the Leeds area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
£1,577,152 of unclaimed prizes (2.84% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 18th June 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #209 (Wednesday 24th December 1997) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #207 (Wednesday 17th December 1997) [No jackpot winners]

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