UK National Lottery #627
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 26th December 2001:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £3,302,369 0 £0 0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus £203,222 5 £1,016,110 14.7%
5 match £1,846 344 £635,024 9.2%
4 match £65 21,481 £1,396,265 20.1%
3 match £10 387,503 £3,875,030 56.0%
Totals 409,333 £6,922,429 100.0%
Category Change Figure
Ticket sales 8.3% fall £22,723,866
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 36 75 13 88 16 14 14
2nd 17 73 13 86 25 10 10
3rd 29 74 13 87 6 4 4
4th 37 68 17 85 9 37 9
5th 26 73 13 86 7 58 7
6th 10 77 12 89 1 103 1
Bonus 16 67 14 81 5 3 3
Total 171 507 95 602 69 229 48
Avg. 24.4 72.4 13.6 86.0 9.9 32.7 6.9
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 4 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £16.91.
One in every 55.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.80% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,668,747.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 10 wins totalling £100.
- Tonight's TV show unusually completely failed to mention which
machine or ball set was used (so I had to phone up Camelot to find out).
- Ticket sales were spectacularly terrible
for this draw - not only the worst sales of all time for a main lottery
draw, but also over £1m lower than the previous
record holder.
- Rather surprisingly, a draw back in April this year
actually contrived to give out less
prize money than this draw, pushing
this draw into being "only" the second worst ever as far as
total prize pools are concerned.
- I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second
ticket, so no Christmas present for me, I'm afraid.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 24th June 2002 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #628 (Saturday 29th December 2001) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #626 (Saturday 22nd December 2001) [4 jackpot winners]