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UK National Lottery #99
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 5th October 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £5,439,681 | 2 | £10,879,362 | 35.1% |
| 5+bonus | £145,543 | 23 | £3,347,489 | 10.8% |
| 5 match | £3,081 | 679 | £2,091,999 | 6.7% |
| 4 match | £101 | 45,430 | £4,588,430 | 14.8% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,008,996 | £10,089,960 | 32.6% |
| Totals | 1,055,130 | £30,997,240 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Lucky Dip sales | 6.6% rise | £8,242,995 | 12.0% of ticket sales |
| Manual sales | 0.4% fall | £60,672,140 | 88.0% of ticket sales |
| Ticket sales | 0.4% rise | £68,915,135 | 80.3% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 1.9% rise | £16,872,178 | 19.7% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 0.7% rise | £85,787,313 | |
| Good causes | 0.7% rise | £22,976,244.47 | 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 2 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £29.38.
One in every 65.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.53% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,285,582.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- Ticket sales increased for an amazing
fifth week in a row, which is the first time that's ever happened. However,
the rises were only modest, resulting in sales £1.3m higher than 5
weeks ago, although they were the highest normal week sales for
19 weeks.
- Lucky Dip sales again continued to break
records as they exceeded £8m for the first time and also hit the
highest percentage (12%) of ticket sales to date.
- ITV teletext page 123 seemed reticent about the exact individual jackpot
figure - it took them until about 11pm to show the exact jackpot prize
pool and even then they still left it to the reader to divide by 2 to get the
individual jackpot. They also refused to reveal the exact number of
3-match winners, which is even more bizarre when you consider that they
had exact figures for the prizes/winners of the 5+bonus, 5-match and
4-match categories !
- Yet another (8th) £10 win for me, this time
with the second ticket matching 3 numbers (no matches for the first ticket
though).
- £621,267 of unclaimed prizes (2.00% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 3rd April 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #100 (Saturday 12th October 1996) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #98 (Saturday 28th September 1996) [4 jackpot winners]
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