UK National Lottery #485

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 16th August 2000:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,236,992           1    £4,236,992      34.4%
5+bonus       £162,961           8    £1,303,688      10.6%
5 match         £2,238         364      £814,632       6.6%
4 match            £84      21,305    £1,789,620      14.6%
3 match            £10     416,277    £4,162,770      33.8%
Totals                     437,955   £12,307,702     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.4% rise   £27,357,404   

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       45        59      16       75       5       22        5 
2nd       24        52      12       64      16       31       16 
3rd       11        65       9       74      12      102       12 
4th       37        48      13       61       3        2        2 
5th       34        46      14       60      15       19       15 
6th       33        59      14       73       5        1        1 
Bonus     43        68      14       82       1       41        1 
Total    227       397      92      489      57      218       52
Avg.      32.4      56.7    13.1     69.9     8.1     31.1      7.4

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 8 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £28.10. One in every 62.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.60% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,942,961.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 8 wins totalling £80.
• The 46th main number appearance of the number 34 has left the numbers 13 and 20 three adrift at the basement of the appropriate frequency table.
• The winning number 17 has now failed to appear for 50 consecutive draws, which is the third longest such sequence ever.
• I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second ticket, so another subscribed £2 vanished without a trace.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 12th February 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #486 (Saturday 19th August 2000) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #484 (Saturday 12th August 2000) [5 jackpot winners]

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