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UK National Lottery #71
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 23rd March 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £877,907 9 £7,901,163 25.4%
5+bonus £24,807 98 £2,431,086 7.8%
5 match £774 1,962 £1,518,588 4.9%
4 match £33 100,195 £3,306,435 10.6%
3 match £10 1,596,881 £15,968,810 51.3%
Totals 1,699,145 £31,126,082 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Lucky Dip sales £2,619,639 3.8% of ticket sales
Manual sales 3.4% fall £66,632,297 96.2% of ticket sales
Ticket sales 0.4% rise £69,251,936 78.4% of combined sales
Instants sales 5.1% fall £19,084,360 21.6% of combined sales
Combined sales 0.8% fall £88,336,296
Good causes 0.7% rise £24,083,252.20 27.3% 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 30 13 2 15 2 4 2
2nd 18 9 0 9 5 Never 5
3rd 05 14 4 18 4 21 4
4th 14 11 1 12 2 41 2
5th 43 9 1 10 8 57 8
6th 07 10 2 12 4 2 2
Bonus 28 12 5 17 1 8 1
Total 145 78 15 93 26 204 24
Avg. 20.7 11.1 2.1 13.3 3.7 29.1 3.4
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 7 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.32.
One in every 40.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.45% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,266,644.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- This was the first time that the same lottery machine (Guinevere
in this case) had been randomly selected for the fifth consecutive draw.
- The number 5 breaks clear as the leader of the pack again with its 14th
appearance as a main number and
its 18th as one of the seven
drawn balls.
- The number 28 becomes the first one to appear for the fifth time as
a bonus number, which
may explain the second highest number of 5+bonus winners ever (and hence
the second worst 5+bonus prize in the history of the lottery).
- The number pair 5 and 30 has now appeared for the sixth time (including
bonus numbers), meaning it joins the pair 17 and 42 at the top of the
table.
- Similarly, the triple 5, 14 and 30 joins three other triples at the top
of the winning number triples table
with its third such appearance.
- The numbers 5, 14 and 43 also appeared in
Lottery #25 and the very
first draw also had the numbers 5, 14 and 30.
- The ticket
5, 7, 22, 25, 28 and 30 has now become the first one to
win ten 3-match prizes.
- The prizes have been poor for two (or three) consecutive draws now,
including these first-time events:
- Three consecutive draws with a jackpot prize under £2m.
- Two consecutive draws with non-millionaire jackpot winners.
- Three consecutive draws with a 5+bonus prize under £50,000.
- Two consecutive draws with a 5-match prize under £800.
- Two consecutive draws with a 4-match prize under £40.
- The
combined
sales have fallen for the 8th consecutive week and
are now at their lowest level since the
first week the scratchcards were introduced.
- This was the first time that the same lottery machine (Guinevere) had
been used for five consecutive draws.
- This was the first draw that allowed players to enter on a 7-board
playslip instead of the previous 5-board
playslip and also to use a
Lucky Dip facility on lottery
terminals to pick random numbers.
- This was the first draw for my second annual
subscription, which now covers two tickets
per draw. I only matched one number on my first ticket, but it was agony
for me again as the second ticket matched two numbers and was one out on a
third :-(
- £932,568 of unclaimed prizes (3.00% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 19th September 1996 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #72 (Saturday 30th March 1996) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #70 (Saturday 16th March 1996) [57 jackpot winners]
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