UK National Lottery #418 (Single Rollover Draw)

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Friday 24th December 1999:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 52nd single rollover draw and the 55th rollover in total, included £4,320,468 (33.4%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £8,630,643 (66.6%).

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 6 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £32.16. One in every 61.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.64% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,315,093.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 10 wins totalling £100.
• The 67th appearance of the main number 25 has made it the outright leader of the main number frequency table and also maintained its lead of three in the winning number frequency table after its 79th such appearance.
• The first appearance in 38 draws of the main number 24 has handed over that longest absentee mantle to the number 48, which has failed to appear as a main number for 35 draws.
• For the first time ever, four of the main numbers (21, 23, 24 and 25) all appeared on the same playslip row (the fifth row in this case).
• Camelot incorrectly calculated the individual jackpot prize (their figure is £1 too high) for the second time this month - here's the calculations:

  Ticket sales          56,430,134
  Prize pool            25,393,560.30  (45% of sales rounded down to nearest 10p)
  Minus 3-match pool    -8,796,170
  Pools fund            16,597,390.30
  Jackpot prize pool     8,630,642.956 (52% of pools fund)
  Rollover              +4,320,468
  Jackpot prize pool    12,951,110.956 (including rollover amount)
  Divide by winners (3)  4,317,036.985333
  Round down             4,317,036
  

  Clearly the temptation to round up the 98.5333p has been too much, but it's definitely against the standard formula published in Camelot's rule book - the final prize is always rounded down to the nearest pound, regardless of value of the remaining pence.

• I matched nothing at all on my first three tickets and two numbers on my fourth ticket, so the first ever UK lottery draw on a Friday failed to bear any fruit for me.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Wednesday 21st June 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #419 (Wednesday 29th December 1999) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #417 (Wednesday 22nd December 1999) [No jackpot winners]

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