UK National Lottery #186

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 4th October 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,176,972           4    £8,707,888      32.1%
5+bonus        £86,430          31    £2,679,330       9.9%
5 match         £1,116       1,500    £1,674,000       6.2%
4 match            £58      62,987    £3,653,246      13.4%
3 match            £10   1,040,734   £10,407,340      38.4%
Totals                   1,105,256   £27,121,804     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)     50.0% fall   £14,124,337     15.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)     24.2% fall   £75,307,557     84.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)     31.7% fall   £60,340,622     67.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     26.1% fall   £29,091,272     32.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     30.0% fall   £89,431,894     86.6% of combined sales
Instants sales          14.4% fall   £13,877,233     13.4% of combined sales
Combined sales          28.2% fall  £103,309,127   
Good causes             27.6% fall   £29,142,229.59  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       46        17       5       22      10        3        3 
2nd       19        20       2       22      14      146       14 
3rd       40        29       3       32       2       43        2 
4th       12        27       2       29       1       59        1 
5th       36        22       5       27       8       47        8 
6th       28        28       5       33      13      115       13 
Bonus     38        26       2       28       1      151        1 
Total    219       169      24      193      49      564       42
Avg.      31.3      24.1     3.4     27.6     7.0     80.6      6.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.54. One in every 54.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.83% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,899,813.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £60.
• Yellow has become the first colour to make 300 winning number appearances.
• The main number pairs 12, 28 and 19, 36 have joined 11 other such pairs in having appeared seven times since the lottery began.
• The main number triple 12, 19, 28 has now appeared three times since the lottery began, a feat only achieved by 19 such triples to date.
• Over £5 billion of prizes have now been awarded by the lottery to date.
• One ticket combination has now won 16 prizes since the lottery began.
• I matched two numbers (and was one out on a third) and nothing on my two tickets, predictably leaving me out of pocket for this draw.
• £1,124,677 of unclaimed prizes (2.75% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 2nd April 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #187 (Wednesday 8th October 1997) [8 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #185 (Wednesday 1st October 1997) [3 jackpot winners]

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