UK National Lottery #183 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 24th September 1997:

12 14 29 31 32 44 (46)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 27th single rollover draw and the 29th rollover in total, included £8,536,462 (62.4%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £5,144,595 (37.6%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot    £13,681,057           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus       £263,825           6    £1,582,950      12.6%
5 match         £1,303         759      £988,977       7.9%
4 match            £50      42,967    £2,148,350      17.1%
3 match            £10     782,157    £7,821,570      62.4%
Totals                     825,889   £12,541,847     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            45.0% rise   £39,366,717

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       31        28       5       33       3        1        1 
2nd       32        18       1       19       3       54        3 
3rd       44        37       6       43       1        3        1 
4th       12        25       2       27      16       56       16 
5th       14        26       4       30       6       59        6 
6th       29        21       4       25      12        9        9 
Bonus     46        16       5       21       7       73        7 
Total    208       171      27      198      48      255       43
Avg.      29.7      24.4     3.9     28.3     6.9     36.4      6.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 10 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £15.19. One in every 47.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.10% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a profit of £2,040,223.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.
The number 44 has starred yet again in this draw:
- It has a lead of 6 in the main number frequency table with its 37th such appearance.
- It is leading by 5 in the winning number frequency table after appearing as one of the seven balls for the 43rd time.
- It's now appeared in four consecutive draws as a winning number (although it also managed to appear a record six times in a row between draws #90 and #95).
- It has become only the second number to be the highest number of the six main balls and to appear as such for three consecutive draws.
The main number triple 29, 31, 32 is one of only 15 such triples to have appeared three times in the history of the lottery.
Needless to say, the unwon jackpot prize was the third largest not to be won.
Ticket sales were a record for a midweek draw and also showed the second largest week-to-week percentage increase ever.
The average prize was the lowest ever in the history of the lottery.
I matched one, two, none and two numbers on my four respective tickets, so no win for me yet again.
Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 23rd March 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #184 (Saturday 27th September 1997) [5 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #182 (Saturday 20th September 1997) [No jackpot winners]

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