UK National Lottery #4 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 10th December 1994:

26 35 38 43 47 49 (28)

The table below is courtesy of ITV's teletext page 123. The jackpot prize pool for this, the 1st single rollover draw, included £6,906,572 (38.6%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £10,973,431 (61.4%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot    £17,880,003           1   £17,880,003      51.7%
5+bonus       £337,644          10    £3,376,440       9.8%
5 match         £4,461         473    £2,110,053       6.1%
4 match           £164      28,244    £4,632,016      13.4%
3 match            £10     657,025    £6,570,250      19.0%
Totals                     685,753   £34,568,762     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales            27.4% rise   £61,495,564   
Good causes             27.4% rise   £15,898,767.94  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       Since Last Appeared
Drawn   Order      Main    Bonus   Total    Main    Bonus    Either
1st       26         1       0        1    Never    Never    Never
2nd       47         1       0        1    Never    Never    Never
3rd       49         1       0        1    Never    Never    Never
4th       43         1       0        1    Never    Never    Never
5th       35         1       0        1    Never    Never    Never
6th       38         1       0        1    Never    Never    Never
Bonus     28         0       1        1    Never    Never    Never
Total    266         6       1        7      28       28       28
Avg.      38.0       0.9     0.1      1.0     4.0      4.0      4.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set B in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £50.41. One in every 89.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.12% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £124,227.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included no wins.
The total prize pool was the biggest to date because of the rollover from Lottery #3. This also meant that the average prize was (and remains) the largest to date.
The single winner of the jackpot this week has won £5m more than the the sum of all the jackpots from Lotteries #1 and #2 ! That person also took over half the prize money this week - the first time that's happened.
Very unusually, the main six numbers and the bonus number were all above the half way mark (i.e. 25 or higher). In fact, it reversed the trend of previous weeks by having only one number less than or equal to 31. This explains why there were less winners overall than any of the previous weeks: lots of people pick all birthdates, so their numbers are all 31 or less.
For the first time (since the first week of course), all six numbers and the bonus number had not appeared in any of the previous sets of winning or bonus numbers.
It was also the first time that all 5 columns of the playslip board contained a main number.
The lowest main number was drawn out first, which hadn't happened before.
No matches at all for me this week on my original set of numbers, but another near miss with the second set I'd bought for the rollover - 2 numbers matched and a third was 3 out. Will I ever win ?
£676,977 of unclaimed prizes (1.96% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 8th June 1995 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #5 (Saturday 17th December 1994) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #3 (Saturday 3rd December 1994) [No jackpot winners]

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