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UK National Lottery #148 (Single Rollover Draw)
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 24th May 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
The jackpot prize pool for this, the 20th single rollover draw and the 22nd rollover in total, included £3,829,208 (31.0%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £8,524,055 (69.0%).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £12,353,263 1 £12,353,263 38.4%
5+bonus £145,710 18 £2,622,780 8.1%
5 match £1,613 1,016 £1,638,808 5.1%
4 match £56 63,974 £3,582,544 11.1%
3 match £10 1,201,972 £12,019,720 37.3%
Totals 1,266,981 £32,217,115 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W) 12.9% rise £12,331,870 13.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W) 3.5% rise £76,145,211 86.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat) 7.3% rise £63,138,076 71.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed) 1.1% fall £25,339,005 28.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W) 4.7% rise £88,477,081 84.8% of combined sales
Instants sales 0.5% fall £15,843,955 15.2% of combined sales
Combined sales 3.9% rise £104,321,036
Good causes 5.9% rise £29,090,324.13 27.9% 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 26 19 1 20 34 107 34
2nd 03 15 4 19 11 50 11
3rd 23 18 3 21 4 36 4
4th 33 18 3 21 17 14 14
5th 25 25 5 30 4 11 4
6th 21 15 5 20 1 6 1
Bonus 24 14 6 20 7 2 2
Total 155 124 27 151 78 226 70
Avg. 22.1 17.7 3.9 21.6 11.1 32.3 10.0
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 2 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.43.
One in every 49.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.01% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £4,618,798.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
- The pink balls really outdid themselves this time - it was the first
time that 5 out of the 7 balls were the same
colour, only the second
winning number
quad
(four consecutive balls: 23 to 26) in the
history of the lottery and only the second time ever that four winning
numbers had all appeared in the same
playslip row.
- The 30th appearance
of the winning number 25 has brought it not only into outright
second place in the frequency table, but also to within two of the
current leader, the number 5.
- The number 24 joins 5 and
45 at the top of the bonus number frequency
table by appearing as
a bonus number for the sixth time.
- The winning number 26 had its run of 33 consecutive draws
without appearing as one of the seven balls stopped dead today (the
outright third longest such absence
ever). The new crown for the longest current winning number absentee goes
to the number 30, which has, ironically, failed to
appear for
30 consecutive draws now.
- Although this draw had the highest jackpot
prize for over
16 months, it also had the second lowest
ticket sales for a rollover draw ever.
- I only matched one number (on my third ticket) across all four of my
tickets, which is highly depressing to say the least !
- £1,078,052 of unclaimed prizes (2.71% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 20th November 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #149 (Wednesday 28th May 1997) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #147 (Wednesday 21st May 1997) [No jackpot winners]
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