UK National Lottery #114

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 18th January 1997:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,512,275           3   £10,536,825      33.9%
5+bonus       £154,385          21    £3,242,085      10.4%
5 match         £2,480         817    £2,026,160       6.5%
4 match            £87      50,802    £4,419,774      14.2%
3 match            £10   1,085,769   £10,857,690      35.0%
Totals                   1,137,412   £31,082,534     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip sales          0.5% fall    £8,954,976     12.9% of  ticket  sales
Manual sales             0.1% rise   £60,202,396     87.1% of  ticket  sales
Ticket sales             0.0% rise   £69,157,372     81.6% of combined sales
Instants sales           7.8% rise   £15,634,543     18.4% of combined sales
Combined sales           1.4% rise   £84,791,915   
Good causes              1.4% rise   £22,639,509.14  26.7% 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       22        15       2       17       6       87        6 
2nd       48        19       3       22      11        7        7 
3rd       03        11       4       15      12       16       12 
4th       31        16       1       17       3      111        3 
5th       21        11       2       13      25       96       25 
6th       26        18       1       19       4       73        4 
Bonus     43        15       4       19       1       20        1 
Total    194       105      17      122      62      410       58
Avg.      27.7      15.0     2.4     17.4     8.9     58.6      8.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £27.33. One in every 60.8 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 £7,337,542.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.
• The winning number 29 has failed to turn up for 32 consecutive draws, which is the outright second longest such absence in the history of the lottery.
• There have now been over 900 (out of a possible 1,176) main number pairs in the history of the lottery.
• At about 9.30pm on Saturday, BBC teletext page 555 stated that there were 1,137,412 3-match winners, which was the total number of winners - a classic mistake usually made by ITV teletext ! What's worse, they've had this error on their page all week and it's now Friday. It somewhat spoiled the launch of their third lottery page (554).
• No match on either of my two tickets this week is just too depressing for words.
• £680,833 of unclaimed prizes (2.19% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 17th July 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #115 (Saturday 25th January 1997) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #113 (Saturday 11th January 1997) [5 jackpot winners]

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