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UK National Lottery #66
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 17th February 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £2,064,154 | 5 | £10,320,770 | 31.1% |
| 5+bonus | £198,476 | 16 | £3,175,616 | 9.6% |
| 5 match | £1,596 | 1,243 | £1,983,828 | 6.0% |
| 4 match | £59 | 72,891 | £4,300,569 | 12.9% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,340,880 | £13,408,800 | 40.4% |
| Totals | 1,415,035 | £33,189,583 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Ticket sales | 2.1% fall | £73,903,189 | 79.1% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 0.2% rise | £19,520,100 | 20.9% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 1.6% fall | £93,423,289 | |
| Good causes | 1.6% fall | £25,047,680.64 | 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 4 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.45.
One in every 52.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.91% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,362,225.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- It's getting crowded again at the top of the main number
frequency table as
the numbers 16 and 22 join three others by appearing for the 12th
time.
- The odds of any single draw having all six main numbers 31 or less is
about 19 to 1 and yet it's taken 66 draws spread over 15 months for this
to finally happen. It shoots a hole right through the theory of using
birthdates for your numbers :-)
- This was only the second time that 5 of the 6 main numbers were
under 20 - only Lottery #5 had previously managed
this.
- This draw also had the narrowest range of main numbers (22-4=18) so far.
- This was the first time that three consecutive draws had five or
more jackpot winners.
- Well done if you
spotted
that three of this week's main numbers (4, 14 and 15)
were also in last week's draw, which is the first time
this has happened.
- There are now over 10 million of the near-14 million
ticket combinations
that have won at least one prize.
- No matches for me this week - I wonder if I'm on another year-long
losing streak ?
- £623,731 of unclaimed prizes (1.88% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 15th August 1996 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #67 (Saturday 24th February 1996) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #65 (Saturday 10th February 1996) [6 jackpot winners]
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