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UK National Lottery #203
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 3rd December 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £4,950,579 0 £0 0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus £253,875 6 £1,523,250 17.9%
5 match £3,249 293 £951,957 11.2%
4 match £112 18,615 £2,084,880 24.5%
3 match £10 394,057 £3,940,570 46.4%
Totals 412,971 £8,500,657 100.0%
Category Change Figure
Ticket sales 3.4% fall £29,913,147
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 26 2 28 1 70 1
2nd 39 18 1 19 3 90 3
3rd 36 24 5 29 6 64 6
4th 49 20 2 22 18 53 18
5th 47 27 8 35 1 6 1
6th 01 22 3 25 8 107 8
Bonus 37 18 3 21 7 86 7
Total 217 155 24 179 44 476 44
Avg. 31.0 22.1 3.4 25.6 6.3 68.0 6.3
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 3 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.58.
One in every 72.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.38% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,308,337.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- The 19th appearance
of the rarest winning number,
39, has moved it to within one of the rest of the pack.
- The winning number 13 has now failed to
appear for 42 consecutive draws,
which is the outright second longest such
absence ever.
- The 4-match prize
was the highest ever for a Wednesday draw.
- The number of 4-match winners was the second lowest ever and
the number of 3-match and total winners was the third lowest ever.
- I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second ticket
to continue my multi-month losing run.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 1st June 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #204 (Saturday 6th December 1997) [6 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #202 (Saturday 29th November 1997) [1 jackpot winner]
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