UK National Lottery #459 (Double Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 17th May 2000:

01 10 11 15 21 48 (07)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 5th double rollover draw and the 64th rollover in total, included £12,956,058 (65.1%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £6,950,666 (34.9%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,976,681           4   £19,906,724      57.0%
5+bonus        £79,209          27    £2,138,643       6.1%
5 match         £1,751         763    £1,336,013       3.8%
4 match            £61      48,055    £2,931,355       8.4%
3 match            £10     862,593    £8,625,930      24.7%
Totals                     911,442   £34,938,665     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            82.0% rise   £48,872,436

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        46      10       56      29       35       29 
2nd       11        60       9       69      13       76       13 
3rd       48        58       9       67       4       29        4 
4th       01        58       7       65       8       23        8 
5th       15        55       9       64       5        4        4 
6th       10        56      11       67       2       16        2 
Bonus     07        58       8       66       8       38        8 
Total    113       391      63      454      69      221       68
Avg.      16.1      55.9     9.0     64.9     9.9     31.6      9.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £38.33. One in every 53.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.86% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,688,812.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £50.
The first appearance of the number 21 for 29 draws has handed the longest absentee mantle to the number 17 which has failed to appear for 24 draws.
This was the twelfth consecutive draw where none of the six main numbers had appeared in the previous draw as main numbers, which is an all-time record.
This was only the second ever Wednesday double rollover draw and was, as a consequence, only the second time that a Wednesday draw had sold more tickets than a Saturday draw.
I matched nothing on my first, second and sixth tickets and only one number on each of my third, fourth and fifth tickets, so it was a bad showing for me in this fifth double rollover.
Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 13th November 2000 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #460 (Saturday 20th May 2000) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #458 (Saturday 13th May 2000) [No jackpot winners]

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