UK National Lottery #129

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.27pm GMT on Wednesday 19th March 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,004,305           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus       £154,011           8    £1,232,088      15.4%
5 match         £2,610         295      £769,950       9.7%
4 match            £84      20,154    £1,692,936      21.2%
3 match            £10     428,770    £4,287,700      53.7%
Totals                     449,227    £7,982,674     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.9% fall   £26,640,638   

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       40        15       2       17       1        6        1 
2nd       16        20       3       23       2       71        2 
3rd       48        21       3       24      13       22       13 
4th       13        15       3       18      11        8        8 
5th       29        15       2       17       3       47        3 
6th       17        17       1       18      21       81       21 
Bonus     32        14       1       15      26     Never      26 
Total    195       117      15      132      77      364       74
Avg.      27.9      16.7     2.1     18.9    11.0     52.0     10.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.77. One in every 59.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.69% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,734,545.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
• The number 32 appeared as a bonus ball for first time ever, leaving the numbers 18, 35 and 42 as the only three numbers not to have been drawn as a bonus ball.
• The appearance of the winning number 32 also meant that the number 6 takes over has the current longest winning number absentee (21 draws since it was last drawn as one of the 7 balls).
• The winning number triples 16, 17, 32 and 29, 32, 40 have joined 27 other such triples that have appeared 3 or more times since the lottery began.
• This was the first time the jackpot wasn't won since the midweek draw was introduced.
• The ticket sales were the worst ever for a lottery draw, which impacted several statistics:
  • The numbers of 5-match, 4-match, 3-match and total winners were all the second lowest since the lottery began.
  • The unwon jackpot amount was the lowest such unwon jackpot ever.
  • The 3-match prize pool was the second lowest in the history of the lottery.
  • The total prize pool was the lowest ever.
• One match on each of my two tickets predictably failed to halt the current dismal run (10 draws now without a win...).
• A 5+bonus prize of £154,011 won by a ticket bought in the Stoke-on-Trent area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 15th September 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #130 (Saturday 22nd March 1997) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #128 (Saturday 15th March 1997) [6 jackpot winners]

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