UK National Lottery #197 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm GMT on Wednesday 12th November 1997:

03 06 08 27 36 45 (47)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 28th single rollover draw and the 31st rollover in total, included £9,082,996 (61.5%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £5,687,984 (38.5%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £7,385,490           2   £14,770,980      53.4%
5+bonus       £159,104          11    £1,750,144       6.3%
5 match         £1,264         865    £1,093,360       3.9%
4 match            £52      45,495    £2,365,740       8.6%
3 match            £10     767,928    £7,679,280      27.8%
Totals                     814,301   £27,659,504     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            47.7% rise   £41,372,692

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       08        23       2       25       6       64        6 
2nd       45        30       7       37       4       26        4 
3rd       36        23       5       28      11       58       11 
4th       06        23       5       28       2       40        2 
5th       27        27       2       29       5       39        5 
6th       03        22       6       28      10       34       10 
Bonus     47        23       8       31      22        7        7 
Total    172       171      35      206      60      268       45
Avg.      24.6      24.4     5.0     29.4     8.6     38.3      6.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £33.97. One in every 50.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.97% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,930,553.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
The number 47 has now appeared 8 times as a bonus number, which ties it with the previously outright leader (the number 20) in the frequency table.
There have now been exactly 500 tickets that have won at least £1 million since the lottery began.
The following "highest ever" records were set for Wednesday draws only:
- The ticket sales (first time that they have exceeded £40 million).
- The individual jackpot prize.
- The jackpot, 5+bonus, 5-match, 4-match and total prize pools.
I matched nothing on my first and fourth tickets, two numbers on my second ticket and one number on my third ticket, so that's another rollover failure for me.
Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 11th May 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #198 (Saturday 15th November 1997) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #196 (Saturday 8th November 1997) [No jackpot winners]

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