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UK National Lottery #128
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 15th March 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £1,508,273 6 £9,049,638 32.8%
5+bonus £107,096 26 £2,784,496 10.1%
5 match £2,197 792 £1,740,024 6.3%
4 match £73 52,272 £3,815,856 13.8%
3 match £10 1,021,104 £10,211,040 37.0%
Totals 1,074,200 £27,601,054 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W) 2.9% fall £11,176,667 12.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W) 1.4% fall £77,074,523 87.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat) 1.0% fall £61,364,875 69.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed) 3.0% fall £26,886,315 30.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W) 1.6% fall £88,251,190 85.6% of combined sales
Instants sales 1.3% rise £14,863,336 14.4% of combined sales
Combined sales 1.2% fall £103,114,526
Good causes 6.7% fall £25,943,268.68 25.2% 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 43 17 4 21 3 14 3
2nd 39 11 1 12 2 15 2
3rd 37 10 2 12 23 11 11
4th 24 12 4 16 3 23 3
5th 07 17 3 20 3 43 3
6th 40 14 2 16 16 5 5
Bonus 15 13 3 16 28 10 10
Total 205 94 19 113 78 121 37
Avg. 29.3 13.4 2.7 16.1 11.1 17.3 5.3
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 6 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.69.
One in every 57.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.75% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,934,054.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- The main number 37 is now the second rarest
such number after appearing
for the 10th time, leaving the number
19 at the bottom with one less appearance
(and hence the only number left not to have appeared
at least 10 times).
- Even more remarkably, the winning numbers
37 and 39 both moved off the bottom of the
frequency table
with their 12th appearances, leaving just the number 19
on its own at the bottom with one less appearance.
- Ticket sales continued to plunge for
the sixth consecutive Saturday (which has never happened before) and have
hit their lowest Saturday draw level for over
two years.
- The disastrous ticket sales meant that the total
prize pool was also the lowest for
a Saturday draw with a won jackpot for over two years.
- No match on my first ticket and only one on my second
continues a worrying losing streak of 9 draws.
- A 5+bonus prize of £107,096 won by a ticket bought in the Wealdon, East Sussex area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
- £1,258,533 of unclaimed prizes (3.17% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 11th September 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #129 (Wednesday 19th March 1997) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #127 (Wednesday 12th March 1997) [2 jackpot winners]
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