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UK National Lottery #97
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 21st September 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £10,101,049 | 1 | £10,101,049 | 32.8% |
| 5+bonus | £182,824 | 17 | £3,108,008 | 10.1% |
| 5 match | £2,151 | 903 | £1,942,353 | 6.3% |
| 4 match | £79 | 53,547 | £4,230,213 | 13.8% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,138,159 | £11,381,590 | 37.0% |
| Totals | 1,192,627 | £30,763,213 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Lucky Dip sales | 26.6% rise | £7,098,479 | 10.4% of ticket sales |
| Manual sales | 1.3% fall | £61,360,820 | 89.6% of ticket sales |
| Ticket sales | 1.0% rise | £68,459,299 | 80.3% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 0.2% fall | £16,833,511 | 19.7% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 0.8% rise | £85,292,810 | |
| Good causes | 2.7% fall | £22,843,802.72 | 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 7 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.79.
One in every 57.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.74% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,284,147.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- There was a minor computer graphics malfunction on the live
TV show this week. The estimated prize fund of
£30.8m didn't appear initially and only the digits "3" and "0" were
eventually displayed just as the overlay panel decided to scroll off the
bottom of the screen ! Worse was to come as the estimated jackpot figure
of £9.7m completely failed to appear, leaving just a blank overlay panel.
- The winning number pair
07, 35 is now the tenth such
pair to have appeared 6 times since the
lottery began.
- The
Lucky Dip sales zoomed up to an
all-time high for a "normal" week (about £1.3m higher than the
typical figure for the past 2 months) and exceeded 10% of
ticket sales for the first time ever.
This was probably due to Camelot
releasing info the previous week about 2 jackpot winners who both won
via Lucky Dip, which encouraged the public to try it more than usual.
- No matches on either of my tickets for the second week running and
it made more painful by the fact that if this draw was a rollover,
I would have £10
with my fourth choice ticket.
- £842,748 of unclaimed prizes (2.74% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 20th March 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #98 (Saturday 28th September 1996) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #96 (Saturday 14th September 1996) [5 jackpot winners]
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