UK National Lottery #556 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 21st April 2001:

12 20 23 26 33 46 (01)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 74th single rollover draw and the 79th rollover in total, included £4,318,003 (35.7%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £7,773,381 (64.3%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,022,846           4   £12,091,384      43.4%
5+bonus       £217,437          11    £2,391,807       8.6%
5 match         £1,744         857    £1,494,608       5.4%
4 match            £70      46,661    £3,266,270      11.7%
3 match            £10     861,816    £8,618,160      30.9%
Totals                     909,349   £27,862,229     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      9.4% rise   £52,371,053     68.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      2.2% fall   £24,574,186     31.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      5.4% rise   £76,945,239

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        82       8       90       5       38        5 
2nd       46        71      14       85       1        5        1 
3rd       12        74       9       83      12        2        2 
4th       20        51      18       69      14       69       14 
5th       26        66      12       78       6        7        6 
6th       33        67      16       83      13        1        1 
Bonus     01        70       9       79      10       75       10 
Total    161       481      86      567      61      197       39
Avg.      23.0      68.7    12.3     81.0     8.7     28.1      5.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Vyvyan machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.64. One in every 57.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.74% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,756,223.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 11 wins totalling £224.
The 82nd main number appearance of the number 23 has brought it to within 8 of the table leader (the number 38).
Meanwhile, the other end of that table now has both the numbers 13 and 20 tying on 51 appearances each.
Ticket sales were the worst ever for a Saturday rollover draw.
I matched one number on my first and third tickets and nothing on each of my second and fourth tickets to continue another loss-making lottery weekend.
Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 18th October 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #557 (Wednesday 25th April 2001) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #555 (Wednesday 18th April 2001) [No jackpot winners]

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