![[UK National Lottery Logo]](/Lottery.gif)
UK National Lottery #108
UK Lottery E-mail Scams Warning
Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 7th December 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £2,239,449 | 4 | £8,957,796 | 28.5% |
| 5+bonus | £64,098 | 43 | £2,756,214 | 8.7% |
| 5 match | £1,128 | 1,526 | £1,721,328 | 5.5% |
| 4 match | £46 | 82,053 | £3,774,438 | 12.0% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,426,085 | £14,260,850 | 45.3% |
| Totals | 1,509,711 | £31,470,626 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Lucky Dip sales | 1.2% fall | £9,514,230 | 13.6% of ticket sales |
| Manual sales | 1.3% fall | £60,457,742 | 86.4% of ticket sales |
| Ticket sales | 1.3% fall | £69,971,972 | 79.5% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 8.5% rise | £18,075,400 | 20.5% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 0.6% rise | £88,047,372 | |
| Good causes | 12.5% rise | £23,508,718.76 | 26.7% 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 1 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.85.
One in every 46.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.16% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,035,464.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £64.
- Sure enough, the main number
29 has now become the joint third longest absentee
in the history of the lottery by not
appearing for 33 consecutive draws.
- The appearance of the winning number 22 also
allowed the number 29 to become the winning number that
has been absent
for the most draws (26) at this moment in time.
- Remarkably, the two most frequent main number pairs,
06, 47 and 17, 42, both
appeared in this
draw for the 6th and 7th times respectively.
- Meanwhile, the winning number pair 17, 42 has
joined the pair 07, 35 at the top of the
table, also with its
7th appearance.
- Both ITV and BBC teletext initially displayed the wrong
number of 3-match winners (426,085...a full one million
short), which meant that my first full results update duplicated
this problem until I double-checked the figures with Camelot.
BBC teletext quickly rectified the error, but ITV teletext
didn't (I think it was Tuesday when they finally fixed the
figure). Just goes to show that I can't base my full updates
on teletext - they are so unreliable !
- I provided a Live Update for the first time with
this draw and augmented it with a live running commentary of what was
going on in the TV show and I also
made the full results available faster than any other Internet
site.
- The estimated jackpot pool caption failed to appear (the
second time this has happened) on the live
TV show.
- Two matches on my first ticket and two on my second made this
an agonising draw (and the 100th draw where I've lost).
- £840,006 of unclaimed prizes (2.67% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 5th June 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #109 (Saturday 14th December 1996) [7 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #107 (Saturday 30th November 1996) [3 jackpot winners]
![[Winning Numbers]](/nav/Winning.gif)