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UK National Lottery #61
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 13th January 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £12,537,861 | 0 | £0 | 0.0% - rolled over |
| 5+bonus | £321,483 | 12 | £3,857,796 | 18.3% |
| 5 match | £5,299 | 455 | £2,411,045 | 11.4% |
| 4 match | £134 | 39,551 | £5,299,834 | 25.1% |
| 3 match | £10 | 956,338 | £9,563,380 | 45.2% |
| Totals | 996,356 | £21,132,055 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 41.5% fall | £74,832,559 | 79.0% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 3.7% fall | £19,918,679 | 21.0% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 36.2% fall | £94,751,238 | |
| Good causes | 36.2% fall | £25,403,717.86 | 26.8% 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 6 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.21.
One in every 75.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.33% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a profit of £2,869,950.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £117.
This remains the largest total prize money previously won by a jackpot ticket.
- Last week's
double rollover
probably hooked in several million extra regular punters because the ticket
sales obliterated the "normal" week record by some 7 million tickets
and made it to #5 in the all-time
sales chart,
pushing a normal week's sales to the same levels as a rollover week !
- With a set of "high" numbers, there were less than a million 3-match
winners which, along with the record ticket sales, boosted the (unwon) jackpot
to a record amount for a normal week.
- The 5-match
individual prize
was the second highest ever, only beaten by a
draw with freakily high numbers.
- This was the first time the
total prize pool
exceeded £20m for a normal week where the jackpot wasn't won.
- For the first time ever, 4 of the 6 main numbers (21, 29, 31 and 32)
had been drawn before in a
previous lottery (#29). The numbers 31, 34 and 38
have also appeared in
Lottery #24.
- Now that the number 31 has appeared for the first time in 6 months, the
new
last appearance record holder is
the number 38
(last appeared 20 draws ago).
- There are now several (4 to be precise)
tickets
that have won two 5-match prizes in the history of the lottery.
At the other end of the scale,
there are now less than 100 tickets that have failed to match 2 or more
numbers in at least one of the draws.
- No matches for me this week, although I've now decided that the ticket
sales for a normal week are now high enough to warrant two
ticket subscriptions when
it comes up for renewal in about 10 weeks' time. It still wouldn't have
meant I'd have fourth choice ticket this week, which managed to match
3 numbers.
- £950,255 of unclaimed prizes (4.50% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 11th July 1996 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #62 (Saturday 20th January 1996) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #60 (Saturday 6th January 1996) [3 jackpot winners]
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