UK National Lottery #184 (Double Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 27th September 1997:

15 21 29 32 33 40 (42)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 3rd double rollover draw and the 30th rollover in total, included £13,681,057 (50.3%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £13,494,768 (49.7%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £5,435,165           5   £27,175,825      50.9%
5+bonus        £92,271          45    £4,152,195       7.8%
5 match         £1,958       1,325    £2,594,350       4.9%
4 match            £77      73,801    £5,682,677      10.6%
3 match            £10   1,378,629   £13,786,290      25.8%
Totals                   1,453,805   £53,391,337     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)    122.0% rise   £28,269,442     22.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)     39.5% rise   £99,403,436     77.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)     55.3% rise   £88,306,161     69.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     45.0% rise   £39,366,717     30.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     52.0% rise  £127,672,878     88.7% of combined sales
Instants sales           3.5% rise   £16,202,454     11.3% of combined sales
Combined sales          44.4% rise  £143,875,332   
Good causes             43.6% rise   £40,258,742.34  28.0% 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        21       3       24       8       50        8 
2nd       40        28       3       31       2       41        2 
3rd       15        15       3       18      18       56       18 
4th       21        20       5       25       3       42        3 
5th       29        22       4       26       1       10        1 
6th       32        19       1       20       1       55        1 
Bonus     42        25       3       28      31        8        8 
Total    212       150      22      172      64      262       41
Avg.      30.3      21.4     3.1     24.6     9.1     37.4      5.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £36.73. One in every 60.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.65% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,583,802.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £213. This is the highest amount ever won by a jackpot ticket in prior draws.
The 15th appearance of the main number 15 now leaves the number 39 on its own at the bottom of the frequency table with 14 appearances.
Similarly, the gap to the number 39 in the winning number frequency table has widened to 3 as it remains at the bottom with 15 such appearances.
The main number pair 29, 40 has now appeared 11 times since the lottery began - a feat only achieved by 10 other such pairs.
The main number triples 21, 29, 32, 21, 29, 40 and 29, 32, 40 all appeared for the third time since the lottery began and joined 15 other such triples in achieving this.
The winning number triples 21,29,40 and 29,32,40 have both appeared four times to date and join 5 other such triples in doing so.
It's the seventh consecutive draw to have at least one main number pair, which is an all-time record sequence.
This draw had the third highest ticket sales (and hence the third highest jackpot and total prize pools) ever.
The individual jackpot prize was the highest ever won by 5 or more people in a single draw.
Lucky Dip sales reached an all-time high figure of £28.3 million this week - a record weekly increase of 122% and the highest percentage ever (22.1%) of this week's ticket sales.
The money given to the Good Causes this week exceeded £40 million for the first time ever.
Eight ticket combinations have now won 15 prizes in the history of the lottery.
A four-member pub syndicate from New Ash Green, near Dartford, Kent, accidentally picked the winning numbers twice (which has never been done before in the UK lottery), netting them a cool £10.8 million.
Greig Stevens of Southend, Essex, became the youngest ever jackpot winner to date at the age of 19 when he won £5.4m in this draw.
My lottery pages were the only place in the world that correctly predicted a £27m jackpot prize pool.
The combination of a double rollover and an unclaimed 5+bonus prize led to the second highest ever level of unclaimed prizes this week.
I matched 0, 1, 1, 1, 1 and 0 numbers on my six tickets (the most I've ever bought, but it still did me no good).
A 5+bonus prize of £92,271 won by a ticket bought in the Southwark area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
£1,823,383 of unclaimed prizes (2.77% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 26th March 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #185 (Wednesday 1st October 1997) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #183 (Wednesday 24th September 1997) [No jackpot winners]

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