UK National Lottery #629 (Double Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 2nd January 2002:

02 06 20 24 29 32 (21)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 7th double rollover draw and the 93rd rollover in total, included £10,808,913 (65.0%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £5,818,981 (35.0%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot    £16,627,894           1   £16,627,894      57.2%
5+bonus        £99,469          18    £1,790,442       6.2%
5 match         £1,718         651    £1,118,418       3.8%
4 match            £67      36,525    £2,447,175       8.4%
3 match            £10     708,250    £7,082,500      24.4%
Totals                     745,445   £29,066,429     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            78.7% rise   £40,606,331

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       20        58      22       80      16        4        4 
2nd       24        75      13       88       5       98        5 
3rd       29        75      13       88       2        6        2 
4th       32        82       7       89       1      219        1 
5th       02        87      12       99       9      130        9 
6th       06        75      15       90       8       23        8 
Bonus     21        61      15       76      19       53       19 
Total    134       513      97      610      60      533       48
Avg.      19.1      73.3    13.9     87.1     8.6     76.1      6.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £38.99. One in every 54.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.84% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £2,736,629.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £70.
The 58th appearance of the main number 20 has left the number 13 on its own at the bottom of the main number frequency table.
Ticket sales were the worst ever for a double rollover draw, beating the previous record holder by almost £4m.
However, tonight we did manage to see the largest ever individual jackpot prize for a Wednesday draw.
We also came the "closest ever" to a triple rollover draw after having the outright lowest number of jackpot winners for a double rollover draw to date.
I matched nothing on my first, third and fifth tickets, two numbers on my second and fourth tickets and one number on my sixth ticket, so I spectacularly blew £6 there with no recompense.
Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 1st July 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #630 (Saturday 5th January 2002) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #628 (Saturday 29th December 2001) [No jackpot winners]

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