UK National Lottery #491
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 6th September 2000:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £3,011,065 1 £3,011,065 24.6%
5+bonus £51,471 18 £926,478 7.6%
5 match £504 1,147 £578,088 4.7%
4 match £28 43,929 £1,230,012 10.0%
3 match £10 649,971 £6,499,710 53.1%
Totals 695,066 £12,245,353 100.0%
Category Change Figure
Ticket sales 0.3% fall £27,311,602
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 23 68 6 74 14 35 14
2nd 11 68 9 77 1 108 1
3rd 32 62 7 69 4 81 4
4th 06 54 11 65 7 23 7
5th 44 70 11 81 10 42 10
6th 07 62 8 70 15 32 15
Bonus 34 48 15 63 3 25 3
Total 157 432 67 499 54 346 54
Avg. 22.4 61.7 9.6 71.3 7.7 49.4 7.7
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 5 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.62.
One in every 39.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.54% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,296,664.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £90.
- I matched one number on each of my tickets, so
I most certainly wasn't tonight's solo jackpot winner.
- The jackpot for this draw was won by
someone in south Hertfordshire and
remained unclaimed
for 180 days (they'd lost their ticket !) and has been added to the Good Causes fund.
Cruelly, there were apparently 115 hoax claims from pranksters saying they'd
won the jackpot (probably mostly via phone - I doubt anyone tried to present
a fake ticket to Camelot).
At the time of writing, this was the
largest ever unclaimed jackpot for any of Camelot's games.
- A 5+bonus prize of £51,471 won by a ticket bought in the Bonus West Midlands area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 5th March 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #492 (Saturday 9th September 2000) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #490 (Saturday 2nd September 2000) [2 jackpot winners]