UK National Lottery #588 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 11th August 2001:

18 19 25 36 38 40 (42)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 79th single rollover draw and the 85th rollover in total, included £4,103,819 (34.4%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £7,821,238 (65.6%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot    £11,925,057           1   £11,925,057      44.7%
5+bonus       £120,326          20    £2,406,520       9.0%
5 match         £2,629         572    £1,503,788       5.6%
4 match            £88      37,222    £3,275,536      12.3%
3 match            £10     759,617    £7,596,170      28.4%
Totals                     797,432   £26,707,071     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)     11.1% rise   £50,304,472     67.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.7% rise   £24,554,981     32.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      7.5% rise   £74,859,453

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        72      10       82       4        8        4 
2nd       38        97      16      113       8       40        8 
3rd       18        67       5       72       6       36        6 
4th       19        63       5       68       9        5        5 
5th       40        81       7       88       3       17        3 
6th       25        86      17      103       7       65        7 
Bonus     42        63      10       73      34       48       34 
Total    218       529      70      599      71      219       67
Avg.      31.1      75.6    10.0     85.6    10.1     31.3      9.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £33.49. One in every 63.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.59% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £4,614,870.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 11 wins totalling £223.
The two most popular numbers, 38 (now on 97 appearances) and 25 (has reached 86 appearances so far), both turned up as main numbers in this draw. They also made their 113th and 103rd appearances respectively at the top of the winning number frequency table.
The 68th winning number appearance of the number 19 has left the number 13 seven adrift at the bottom of the appropriate frequency table.
Ticket sales were the lowest ever for a Saturday single rollover draw.
I matched absolutely nothing on each of my four tickets - a quadruple whitewash if ever I saw one. What's totally sickening, though, is that if I'd have bought six tickets using my rules for every draw to date, this one would have been the first to net a 4-match prize (my fifth ticket, which I'd only buy on a double rollover).
Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 7th February 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #589 (Wednesday 15th August 2001) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #587 (Wednesday 8th August 2001) [No jackpot winners]

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