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UK National Lottery #210
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 27th December 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £2,868,377 3 £8,605,131 32.5%
5+bonus £73,548 36 £2,647,728 10.0%
5 match £1,612 1,026 £1,653,912 6.3%
4 match £69 52,284 £3,607,596 13.6%
3 match £10 995,507 £9,955,070 37.6%
Totals 1,048,856 £26,469,437 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W) 21.9% fall £17,979,484 19.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W) 6.2% fall £76,558,714 81.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat) 22.4% fall £58,896,450 62.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed) 23.7% rise £35,641,748 37.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W) 9.7% fall £94,538,198 88.7% of combined sales
Instants sales 22.0% fall £12,103,022 11.3% of combined sales
Combined sales 11.3% fall £106,641,220
Good causes 17.0% fall £27,974,051.23 26.2% 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 31 29 6 35 27 17 17
2nd 14 32 5 37 4 2 2
3rd 21 24 5 29 6 68 6
4th 28 31 7 38 10 8 8
5th 40 33 3 36 14 67 14
6th 46 22 7 29 3 4 3
Bonus 09 29 5 34 6 95 6
Total 189 200 38 238 70 261 56
Avg. 27.0 28.6 5.4 34.0 10.0 37.3 8.0
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 1 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.24.
One in every 56.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.78% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,449,304.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £50.
- The main number pair 21, 40 has now
appeared 8 times
since the lottery began, a feat only managed by 3 other such pairs to date.
- More of a surprise is that three winning number pairs
(21,40, 28, 46 and 31, 40) have now joined two others
at the top of the frequency
table
by appearing for the 10th time each.
- Continuing the theme, two more winning number triples
(09, 28, 31 and 21, 31, 40) have joined the
existing 11 other such
triples
to have appeared four times in the history of the lottery.
- One ticket combination
has now won 17 prizes in the 210 draws to date.
- Scratchcard sales suffered the second largest
percentage drop ever this week to hit their lowest full weekly sales figure
since they were launched.
- This week's Lucky Dip sales were the highest ever for a normal week.
- This was the 10th consecutive week that over £1 million of
prizes had remained unclaimed for 180 days, which has never happened before.
- I matched 2 numbers on my first ticket and one on my second,
so I lost either side of Christmas, predictably.
- £1,566,444 of unclaimed prizes (3.69% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 25th June 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #211 (Wednesday 31st December 1997) [6 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #209 (Wednesday 24th December 1997) [2 jackpot winners]
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