UK National Lottery #190

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 18th October 1997:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,140,253           4    £8,561,012      32.0%
5+bonus       £175,610          15    £2,634,150       9.9%
5 match         £1,875         878    £1,646,250       6.2%
4 match            £67      53,338    £3,573,646      13.4%
3 match            £10   1,029,691   £10,296,910      38.5%
Totals                   1,083,926   £26,711,968     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      2.1% rise   £14,085,335     16.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.8% fall   £74,007,294     84.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.0% rise   £59,467,553     67.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.1% fall   £28,625,076     32.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.3% fall   £88,092,629     85.5% of combined sales
Instants sales           7.9% rise   £14,964,314     14.5% of combined sales
Combined sales           0.8% rise  £103,056,943   
Good causes              0.9% rise   £28,970,676.36  28.1% 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       04        24       3       27       3        9        3 
2nd       28        29       5       34       4      119        4 
3rd       46        18       5       23       4        7        4 
4th       09        25       4       29       8       75        8 
5th       32        20       1       21       6       61        6 
6th       25        32       7       39      15        5        5 
Bonus     47        23       7       30      15        1        1 
Total    191       171      32      203      55      277       31
Avg.      27.3      24.4     4.6     29.0     7.9     39.6      4.4

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.64. One in every 54.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.82% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,485,280.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
• The winning number 25 has closed the gap to the frequency table leader (the winning number 44) to four by appearing for the 39th time as one of the seven drawn balls.
• Less than 400,000 ticket combinations have failed to win a prize in any of the 190 lotteries to date.
• Only 100 main number pairs have failed to be drawn so far.
• The machine Arthur has been paired with ball set 2 for a record 17th time - three more than the next most popular pairing of Guinevere and ball set 4.
• I matched two on my first ticket and nothing on my second ticket, so another fruitless Saturday passes by.
• £1,091,295 of unclaimed prizes (2.73% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 16th April 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #191 (Wednesday 22nd October 1997) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #189 (Wednesday 15th October 1997) [1 jackpot winner]

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