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UK National Lottery #66
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 17th February 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £2,064,154 5 £10,320,770 31.1%
5+bonus £198,476 16 £3,175,616 9.6%
5 match £1,596 1,243 £1,983,828 6.0%
4 match £59 72,891 £4,300,569 12.9%
3 match £10 1,340,880 £13,408,800 40.4%
Totals 1,415,035 £33,189,583 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Ticket sales 2.1% fall £73,903,189 79.1% of combined sales
Instants sales 0.2% rise £19,520,100 20.9% of combined sales
Combined sales 1.6% fall £93,423,289
Good causes 1.6% fall £25,047,680.64 26.8% 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 18 8 0 8 13 Never 13
2nd 14 9 1 10 1 36 1
3rd 16 12 3 15 3 8 3
4th 22 12 2 14 2 39 2
5th 04 9 1 10 1 56 1
6th 15 10 1 11 1 28 1
Bonus 33 9 1 10 4 Never 4
Total 122 69 9 78 25 299 25
Avg. 17.4 9.9 1.3 11.1 3.6 42.7 3.6
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 4 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.45.
One in every 52.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.91% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,362,225.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- It's getting crowded again at the top of the main number
frequency table as
the numbers 16 and 22 join three others by appearing for the 12th
time.
- The odds of any single draw having all six main numbers 31 or less is
about 19 to 1 and yet it's taken 66 draws spread over 15 months for this
to finally happen. It shoots a hole right through the theory of using
birthdates for your numbers :-)
- This was only the second time that 5 of the 6 main numbers were
under 20 - only Lottery #5 had previously managed
this.
- This draw also had the narrowest range of main numbers (22-4=18) so far.
- This was the first time that three consecutive draws had five or
more jackpot winners.
- Well done if you
spotted
that three of this week's main numbers (4, 14 and 15)
were also in last week's draw, which is the first time
this has happened.
- There are now over 10 million of the near-14 million
ticket combinations
that have won at least one prize.
- No matches for me this week - I wonder if I'm on another year-long
losing streak ?
- £623,731 of unclaimed prizes (1.88% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 15th August 1996 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #67 (Saturday 24th February 1996) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #65 (Saturday 10th February 1996) [6 jackpot winners]
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