UK National Lottery #142

Winning numbers drawn at 7.58pm BST on Saturday 3rd May 1997:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£9,512,277	1	£9,512,277	35.7%
5+bonus	£209,061	14	£2,926,854	11.0%
5 match	£2,499	732	£1,829,268	6.9%
4 match	£94	42,525	£3,997,350	15.0%
3 match	£10	836,548	£8,365,480	31.4%
Totals	879,820		£26,631,229	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		1.1% fall	£11,170,802	13.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		1.4% fall	£73,409,373	86.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.3% fall	£59,240,714	70.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.5% fall	£25,339,461	30.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.3% fall	£84,580,175	83.9% of combined sales
Instants sales		0.5% fall	£16,286,362	16.1% of combined sales
Combined sales		1.2% fall	£100,866,537
Good causes		1.2% fall	£28,216,727.83	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	29	17	2	19	6	60	6
2nd	40	20	2	22	1	19	1
3rd	35	19	0	19	7	Never	7
4th	20	13	5	18	16	58	16
5th	06	17	3	20	2	74	2
6th	31	21	1	22	8	139	8
Bonus	21	12	5	17	22	6	6
Total	182	119	18	137	62	498	46
Avg.	26.0	17.0	2.6	19.6	8.9	71.1	6.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.27. One in every 67.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.49% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,396,622.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.

The main number 15 has failed to appear for 42 consecutive draws, which makes gives it the outright second longest absence in lottery history.

The main number triple 29, 31, 40 has become only the ninth such triple to have appeared 3 times since the lottery began.

Even more remarkably, two winning number triples, 21, 29, 31 and 29, 31, 40 have both made their fourth appearances to join two other such triples at the top of the table.

Ticket sales hit their lowest level for a Saturday draw for 28 months.

This was the first time in over two years that two consecutive draws have had a single jackpot winner.

I matched nothing on my ticket and two numbers on my second ticket to continue my current bad run of losses.

£1,054,961 of unclaimed prizes (2.77% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 30th October 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #143 (Wednesday 7th May 1997) [14 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #141 (Wednesday 30th April 1997) [1 jackpot winner]

UK National Lottery #142

Winning numbers drawn at 7.58pm BST on Saturday 3rd May 1997:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.58am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020