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UK National Lottery #39
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm BST on Saturday 12th August 1995:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £9,923,276 | 0 | £0 | 0.0% - rolled over |
| 5+bonus | £508,885 | 6 | £3,053,310 | 16.4% |
| 5 match | £3,432 | 556 | £1,908,192 | 10.2% |
| 4 match | £97 | 42,929 | £4,164,113 | 22.4% |
| 3 match | £10 | 950,309 | £9,503,090 | 51.0% |
| Totals | 993,800 | £18,628,705 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 0.2% rise | £63,525,142 | 68.8% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 3.8% fall | £28,832,038 | 31.2% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 1.1% fall | £92,357,180 | |
| Good causes | 1.1% fall | £24,930,084.43 | 27.0% of combined sales |
The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 4 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.74.
One in every 63.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.56% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £161,614.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included no wins.
- This was the eighth time the jackpot wasn't won and no doubt Camelot are
breathing a sigh of relief because sales had flattened out after 5 "normal"
weeks.
- The number 25 joins 17, 31 and 44 at the top of the main number
frequency table with its eighth
such appearance.
- As I predicted earlier in the week, the (unwon) jackpot prize pool was
indeed about £10m and not the £8m that Camelot keep estimating
for a normal week. Camelot also seem to be underestimating
next week's jackpot pool - they initially claimed
£17m and have now revised this to £20m,
but I reckon £21m is closer to the mark. I suspect Camelot are playing
it ultra-conservative to avoid over-estimations.
- For a record fourth consecutive week, the
combined sales fell, managing
to reach their lowest level since the first week the scratchcards were
introduced.
- ITV teletext page 123 claimed on Wednesday that there have been 85
millionaires created by the lottery so far. Ahem, I make that
83 actually !
- Only one match for me this week as I keep up my 100% losing streak.
- £738,865 of unclaimed prizes (3.97% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 8th February 1996 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #40 (Saturday 19th August 1995) [5 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #38 (Saturday 5th August 1995) [2 jackpot winners]
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