UK National Lottery #120

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.06pm GMT on Saturday 15th February 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot       £427,144          19    £8,115,736      28.7%
5+bonus        £60,906          41    £2,497,146       8.8%
5 match           £649       2,403    £1,559,547       5.5%
4 match            £40      84,551    £3,382,040      11.9%
3 match            £10   1,275,960   £12,759,600      45.1%
Totals                   1,362,974   £28,314,069     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      9.2% fall   £12,152,579     13.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      3.4% fall   £80,592,557     86.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.2% fall   £63,037,350     68.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      9.9% fall   £29,707,786     32.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      4.2% fall   £92,745,136     85.7% of combined sales
Instants sales           1.5% rise   £15,538,567     14.3% of combined sales
Combined sales           3.4% fall  £108,283,703   
Good causes              3.4% fall   £28,911,835.33  26.7% 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       14        18       3       21       1       20        1 
2nd       21        12       2       14       6      102        6 
3rd       07        15       3       18      17       35       17 
4th       38        17       1       18       1       85        1 
5th       47        18       4       22       2        1        1 
6th       34        15       4       19      11        4        4 
Bonus     13        14       2       16       2      104        2 
Total    174       109      19      128      40      351       32
Avg.      24.9      15.6     2.7     18.3     5.7     50.1      4.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.77. One in every 46.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.16% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,388,341.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included no wins.
• The winning number pair 34, 47 is now the only such pair to have appeared 8 times since the lottery began.
• This was the first time that two consecutive draws have had 10 or more jackpot winners each.
• Since a "freak draw" exactly 50 draws ago, this draw's managed to set some post-"freak draw" firsts:
  • Highest number of jackpot winners.
  • Lowest (won) individual jackpot and 5-match prizes.
  • Two consecutive draws with a (won) individual jackpot prize of less than £1m.
  A lot of this is probably down to the appearance of the triple 07, 14, 21, especially considering that it is known that 7,14,21,28,35,42 is the most popular ticket combination played in the UK lottery.
• This draw had the worst Saturday ticket sales for 21 months.
• I was agonisingly close with my second ticket as I matched two and was one out on a third number. My first ticket didn't match anything.
• £1,224,187 of unclaimed prizes (2.56% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 14th August 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #121 (Wednesday 19th February 1997) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #119 (Wednesday 12th February 1997) [18 jackpot winners]

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