UK National Lottery #174

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 23rd August 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot       £901,578           9    £8,114,202      31.3%
5+bonus       £138,704          18    £2,496,672       9.6%
5 match         £1,315       1,186    £1,559,590       6.0%
4 match            £57      59,335    £3,382,095      13.0%
3 match            £10   1,040,043   £10,400,430      40.1%
Totals                   1,100,591   £25,952,989     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      1.8% rise   £12,131,675     14.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.4% rise   £72,760,112     85.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.2% rise   £57,788,173     68.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.7% fall   £27,103,614     31.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.6% rise   £84,891,787     82.7% of combined sales
Instants sales           8.4% rise   £17,719,550     17.3% of combined sales
Combined sales           1.8% rise  £102,611,337   
Good causes              2.0% rise   £28,931,486.25  28.2% 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       25        30       5       35       4       37        4 
2nd       36        20       5       25       1       35        1 
3rd       44        34       5       39       7        4        4 
4th       47        22       5       27       6       18        6 
5th       10        19       2       21       3      117        3 
6th       04        22       2       24       9       10        9 
Bonus     29        20       4       24       3       15        3 
Total    195       167      28      195      33      236       30
Avg.      27.9      23.9     4.0     27.9     4.7     33.7      4.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.58. One in every 52.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.90% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,548,773.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
• The number 44 continues to streak ahead at the top of the main number (leading by four after its 34th appearance) and winning number (three ahead after appearing for the 39th time) frequency tables.
• The main number pair 44, 47 is one of only eight such pairs to have appeared 7 times since the lottery began. As a winning number pair, it's now also tied with two other pairs at the top of the table after appearing for the ninth time.
• The winning number 46 has now failed to appear in 37 consecutive draws, which is the joint second longest such absence ever.
• One ticket combination has now won 15 prizes in the history of the lottery.
• I matched one number on each of my tickets, which means I've now lost in 55 consecutive draws.
• £989,665 of unclaimed prizes (2.52% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 19th February 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #175 (Wednesday 27th August 1997) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #173 (Wednesday 20th August 1997) [1 jackpot winner]

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