UK National Lottery #414 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 11th December 1999:

05 09 27 37 43 46 (28)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 51st single rollover draw and the 54th rollover in total, included £3,204,154 (29.4%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £7,699,724 (70.6%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £5,451,939           2   £10,903,878      38.3%
5+bonus       £107,688          22    £2,369,136       8.3%
5 match         £1,391       1,064    £1,480,024       5.2%
4 match            £57      57,067    £3,252,819      11.4%
3 match            £10   1,047,162   £10,471,620      36.8%
Totals                   1,105,317   £28,477,477     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)     10.1% rise   £56,175,070     68.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.5% fall   £25,632,525     31.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      6.2% rise   £81,807,595

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       43        57      10       67      15       43       15 
2nd       37        41       8       49       3        5        3 
3rd       46        49      11       60       4       42        4 
4th       05        53      11       64      24       26       24 
5th       27        62       6       68      12       97       12 
6th       09        58      12       70       6      103        6 
Bonus     28        60      11       71       3       45        3 
Total    195       380      69      449      67      361       67
Avg.      27.9      54.3     9.9     64.1     9.6     51.6      9.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.76. 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 £7,134,930.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £60.
The 62nd appearance by the main number 27 has closed the gap to four to the main number frequency table leaders (the numbers 25 and 38).
Less than 5,000 of the 13,983,816 possible ticket combinations have failed to win any prize at all in the 414 lotteries to date.

Camelot incorrectly calculated the individual jackpot prize (their figure is £1 too high) - here's the calculations:

Ticket sales          56,175,070
Prize pool            25,278,781.50  (45% of sales rounded down to nearest 10p)
Minus 3-match pool   -10,471,620
Pools fund            14,807,161.50
Jackpot prize pool     7,699,723.98  (52% of pools fund)
Rollover              +3,204,154
Jackpot prize pool    10,903,877.98  (including rollover amount)
Divide by winners (2)  5,451,938.99
Round down             5,451,938

Clearly the temptation to round up the 99p has been too much, but it's definitely against the standard formula published in Camelot's rule book - the final prize is always rounded down to the nearest pound, regardless of value of the remaining pence.

I matched two numbers on my first ticket and one number on each of my remaining three tickets, which has convinced me that there's no more wins for me to be had in the rest of this millennium...
Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 8th June 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #415 (Wednesday 15th December 1999) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #413 (Wednesday 8th December 1999) [No jackpot winners]

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