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UK National Lottery #62 (Single Rollover Draw)
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 20th January 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
The jackpot prize pool for this, the 11th single rollover draw and the 12th rollover in total, included £12,537,861 (52.6%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £11,313,519 (47.4%).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £23,851,380 | 0 | £0 | 0.0% - rolled over |
| 5+bonus | £165,765 | 21 | £3,481,065 | 12.6% |
| 5 match | £2,007 | 1,084 | £2,175,588 | 7.8% |
| 4 match | £59 | 81,069 | £4,783,071 | 17.3% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,728,211 | £17,282,110 | 62.3% |
| Totals | 1,810,385 | £27,721,834 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 15.9% rise | £86,753,064 | 79.2% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 14.2% rise | £22,744,530 | 20.8% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 15.6% rise | £109,497,594 | |
| Good causes | 15.6% rise | £29,357,356.13 | 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 3 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £15.31.
One in every 47.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.09% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a profit of £12,697,728.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- Dale Winton temporarily took over the hosting of the
lottery TV show for this draw and the next one.
- This was the first time that 6 of the 7
winning numbers were odd.
- Despite record
ticket sales
for a single rollover week (beating the previous record by over 8m)
and a "medium" set of drawn numbers,
next week's draw will be a double
rollover for only the second time.
- The third largest number of 3-match winners somewhat reduced the
unwon jackpot prize to just under £24m (explaining why my £26m
estimate wasn't reached), which only just put the unwon jackpot in runner-up
spot behind the previous single rollover.
- The average prize was the lowest ever in the history of
the lottery.
- The number 5 burst out of the pack and became the outright most frequent
main number with its 12th appearance.
Even more impressive is its
performance
with the bonus number included - a total of 16 appearances, a clear three ahead
of any other number.
- There are now several
tickets
that have won nine 3-match prizes in the history of the lottery.
- ITV teletext page 123 claimed there were 1,810,385 3-match winners, which
is wrong because that's the total number of winners. It's not the first
time they've made that particular mistake either...
- Only one match on my first ticket and none on my second, so no doubt this
is the start of a losing streak after my recent good fortune.
- £1,106,565 of unclaimed prizes (3.99% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 18th July 1996 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #63 (Saturday 27th January 1996) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #61 (Saturday 13th January 1996) [No jackpot winners]
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