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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 19th November 1994:

The table below is courtesy of page 303 on Sunday's ITV teletext news pages.

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot       £839,254           7    £5,874,778      26.7%
5+bonus        £46,349          39    £1,807,611       8.2%
5 match           £528       2,139    £1,129,392       5.1%
4 match            £32      76,731    £2,455,392      11.2%
3 match            £10   1,073,695   £10,736,950      48.8%
Totals                   1,152,611   £22,004,123     100.0%

Category                               Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales                         £48,965,792   
Good causes                          £12,659,380.83  25.9% of ticket   sales

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

                    Updated Frequencies 
Drawn   Order      Main    Bonus   Total
1st       30         1       0        1
2nd       03         1       0        1
3rd       05         1       0        1
4th       44         1       0        1
5th       14         1       0        1
6th       22         1       0        1
Bonus     10         0       1        1
Total    128         6       1        7
Avg.      18.3       0.9     0.1      1.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set A in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.09. One in every 42.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.35% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,375,911.
• Incredible as it may seem for a one-minute draw, the TV show was an hour long and was hosted by the irritating Noel Edmonds, although thankfully this was the one and only time he was to do so. Camelot made the error of labelling the Guinevere machine Merlin instead. Note that the Merlin machine didn't exist until Lottery #268 - over 3 and a half years after the first draw.
• An initial estimate of £6.9m was made for the jackpot fund, but this was revised downwards shortly afterwards to £5.9m because of the enormous number of 3 match winners (over a million !).
• The organisers, although they won't admit it, must be disappointed and more than a little embarrassed that, after all the hype, no-one was made a millionaire after the first draw.
• The above table shows up the disparity between the top two prizes and the rest - there is a huge difference between £46,349 and £528 !
• I'm sickened that I matched two numbers and was out by one on a third - arrgh !
• £620,966 of unclaimed prizes (2.82% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 18th May 1995 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #2 (Saturday 26th November 1994) [4 jackpot winners]

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