UK National Lottery #333 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 3rd March 1999:

20 22 24 25 36 40 (01)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 44th single rollover draw and the 47th rollover in total, included £7,505,165 (52.6%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £6,769,879 (47.4%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £7,137,522           2   £14,275,044      54.4%
5+bonus       £189,367          11    £2,083,037       7.9%
5 match         £2,842         458    £1,301,636       5.0%
4 match           £105      27,085    £2,843,925      10.9%
3 match            £10     572,370    £5,723,700      21.8%
Totals                     599,926   £26,227,342     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            47.8% rise   £41,650,444

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       22        37       7       44       4       17        4 
2nd       40        51       3       54       3      190        3 
3rd       25        53      10       63      14       23       14 
4th       24        34       8       42       8       40        8 
5th       20        32      14       46       6       20        6 
6th       36        40       6       46      39       65       39 
Bonus     01        44       6       50       1       88        1 
Total    168       291      54      345      75      443       75
Avg.      24.0      41.6     7.7     49.3    10.7     63.3     10.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £43.72. One in every 69.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.44% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,442,747.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £163.
The number 25 joined the numbers 2 and 38 at the top of the main number frequency table after its 53rd such appearance.
The number 25 has also taken an impressive lead of three in the winning number frequency table after its 63rd appearance as one of the seven numbers drawn.
The 32nd appearance of the main number 20 has moved it off the basement of the main number frequency table, leaving the numbers 19, 37 and 39 to languish at the bottom.
The first appearance of the number 36 for 39 draws has handed the longest absentee mantles over to the numbers 45 (24 draws since drawn as a main number) and 30 (20 draws since drawn as a winning number).
The ticket sales were the highest ever for a Wednesday draw and showed the highest sales percentage increase between two consecutive Wednesday draws.
This draw had the highest average prize of any Wednesday draw to date (and the third highest average prize for any draw so far). It also had the highest ever 5+bonus, 5-match and 4-match prize pools for a Wednesday draw.
I matched absolutely nothing across all four of my tickets, which is obviously my worst ever Super Draw/rollover performance.
Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 30th August 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #334 (Saturday 6th March 1999) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #332 (Saturday 27th February 1999) [No jackpot winners]

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