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UK National Lottery #211
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 31st December 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £709,579 6 £4,257,474 27.5%
5+bonus £77,058 17 £1,309,986 8.5%
5 match £870 941 £818,670 5.3%
4 match £36 48,723 £1,754,028 11.3%
3 match £10 734,366 £7,343,660 47.4%
Totals 784,053 £15,483,818 100.0%
Category Change Figure
Ticket sales 3.2% fall £34,513,590
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 21 25 5 30 1 69 1
2nd 18 22 0 22 23 Never 23
3rd 13 18 4 22 50 70 50
4th 08 27 2 29 8 78 8
5th 29 26 6 32 2 11 2
6th 23 24 4 28 10 50 10
Bonus 30 28 6 34 5 38 5
Total 142 170 27 197 99 527 99
Avg. 20.3 24.3 3.9 28.1 14.1 75.3 14.1
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 3 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.75.
One in every 44.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.27% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,460,434.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.
- The 18th appearance of the main number 13 has left
the number 15 two adrift at the bottom of the
frequency table.
- The number 13 also appeared after being absent for 49 consecutive
draws (as either a main or winning number) handing the
longest absentee crowns to the main number 20 (not
appeared for 30 draws)
and the winning number 12 (not
appeared for 25 draws).
- The pair 21, 29 has now
appeared 8 times as a main number
pair
and 10 times as a winning number
pair since the lottery began
(putting it joint top of both frequency tables).
- It was only the third time that all 7
winning numbers were 30 or less
(and all three times have been in 1997 !).
- I matched one number on each of my two tickets to close off 1997 on
an inevitable losing note.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 29th June 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #212 (Saturday 3rd January 1998) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #210 (Saturday 27th December 1997) [3 jackpot winners]
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