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UK National Lottery #495
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 20th September 2000:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £4,218,266 | 1 | £4,218,266 | 34.9% |
| 5+bonus | £216,321 | 6 | £1,297,926 | 10.8% |
| 5 match | £3,589 | 226 | £811,114 | 6.7% |
| 4 match | £102 | 17,331 | £1,767,762 | 14.6% |
| 3 match | £10 | 398,136 | £3,981,360 | 33.0% |
| Totals | 415,700 | £12,076,428 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure |
| Ticket sales | 0.0% rise | £26,874,246 |
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 1 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £29.05.
One in every 64.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.55% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,757,549.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £60.
- The top two most common numbers,
25 (second on 76 main
and 90 winning number appearances)
and 38 (leading on 80 main and 94 winning number appearances), both
turned up in this draw.
- In contrast to this, the 49th appearance of the main number 34
has now left the two basement-sharing numbers, 13 and
20, five adrift from the rest of the pack.
- The number 17 has now failed to
appear in 60 consecutive draws, making it
only 5 draws away from tying with the all-time longest main number
absentee (the number 15).
- This draw had the lowest number of 5-match
winners of any draw to date.
It also had the third lowest number of overall winners ever.
- Wednesday draws have now awarded over £2.5 billion in total prizes.
- I matched absolutely nothing on either of my two tickets tonight,
which matches the number of medals Britain has won in the Sydney Olympic
swimming pool (ouch !).
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 19th March 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #496 (Saturday 23rd September 2000) [5 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #494 (Saturday 16th September 2000) [1 jackpot winner]
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