UK National Lottery #124

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 1st March 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot       £408,500          20    £8,170,000      29.0%
5+bonus        £23,493         107    £2,513,751       8.9%
5 match           £695       2,259    £1,570,005       5.6%
4 match            £43      80,110    £3,444,730      12.2%
3 match            £10   1,250,102   £12,501,020      44.3%
Totals                   1,332,598   £28,199,506     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      0.9% rise   £11,842,385     13.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.2% fall   £79,423,468     87.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.2% fall   £62,694,583     68.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.3% rise   £28,571,270     31.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.1% fall   £91,265,853     85.0% of combined sales
Instants sales           1.0% fall   £16,052,390     15.0% of combined sales
Combined sales           0.2% fall  £107,318,243   
Good causes              6.3% rise   £28,607,781.11  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       33        16       2       18      15       23       15 
2nd       23        15       3       18       2       12        2 
3rd       49        14       1       15      17       47       17 
4th       08        13       1       14       2      102        2 
5th       02        16       2       18       1       37        1 
6th       42        20       0       20      14     Never      14 
Bonus     14        18       4       22       4       24        4 
Total    171       112      13      125      55      369       55
Avg.      24.4      16.0     1.9     17.9     7.9     52.7      7.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.16. One in every 47.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.13% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,522,481.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
• There have now been more than 200 winning yellow balls since the lottery began. This is the first colour to break through the double century barrier.
• The winning number triple 08, 23, 49 is now only one of 25 such triples to have appeared 3 or more times in the history of the lottery.
• The number of jackpot winners was the joint third highest ever and the greatest for almost a year.
• The number of 5+bonus winners exceeded the century mark for only the second time.
• The (won) individual jackpot prize was the third lowest since the lottery began. The 5+bonus individual prize fared even worse and was the second lowest ever.
• The jackpot prize pool was not only won of course, but was also a multiple of £10,000, which has never happened in a normal draw before. In fact, it's the only the third such time it's ever happened, with the other two times being "artificial" multiples (i.e. £7m Super Draw jackpot pools).
• Over £1 billion in tax has been collected by the Government from the online game since it started (12% of the total ticket sales). This will be officially confirmed shortly after next Wednesday's draw has taken place because the sales for that draw should have pushed the figure over £1 billion already.
• Camelot's phone lines jammed because of the high number of 5+bonus and jackpot winners (127 in all) - I couldn't get through for about half an hour between 8.40pm and 9.10pm. BBC teletext got the initial prize/winners figures through first, but they messed up the number of 5-match winners (claiming it was 2,295 !).
• One match on my first ticket and none on my second, but even more sickening was that if I had bought a third ticket (I didn't), it would have matched 3 numbers and won £10 :-(
• A jackpot prize of £408,500 won by a ticket bought in the Warwickshire area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
• £1,806,111 of unclaimed prizes (4.16% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 28th August 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #125 (Wednesday 5th March 1997) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #123 (Wednesday 26th February 1997) [2 jackpot winners]

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