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UK National Lottery #111
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 28th December 1996:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £1,225,265 | 8 | £9,802,120 | 31.5% |
| 5+bonus | £125,668 | 24 | £3,016,032 | 9.7% |
| 5 match | £1,372 | 1,373 | £1,883,756 | 6.1% |
| 4 match | £58 | 70,851 | £4,109,358 | 13.2% |
| 3 match | £10 | 1,228,876 | £12,288,760 | 39.5% |
| Totals | 1,301,132 | £31,100,026 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages |
| Lucky Dip sales | 9.8% fall | £9,248,813 | 13.4% of ticket sales |
| Manual sales | 0.9% fall | £59,948,953 | 86.6% of ticket sales |
| Ticket sales | 2.2% fall | £69,197,766 | 82.0% of combined sales |
| Instants sales | 12.5% fall | £15,169,600 | 18.0% of combined sales |
| Combined sales | 4.2% fall | £84,367,366 | |
| Good causes | 4.2% fall | £22,526,154.22 | 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 3 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.90.
One in every 53.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.88% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,221,973.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- Dale Winton started his third stint as the presenter of the lottery
TV show with this draw.
- Camelot finally introduced a tone interface to their phone line
(hence the "**4" on the end of the phone number above) on Sunday 22nd
December 1996.
- The number 39 no longer sits alone at the bottom of
the main number frequency table
thanks to its 8th appearance - it now shares the bottom with the
numbers 19 and 20. It's still isolated at
the foot of the winning numbers
table though
with its 8th such appearance, two less than any other number.
- Still on the number 39, it has now made over a third of its appearances
(3 out of the 8) during the three Christmas periods of the lottery,
being drawn on
24th Dec 1994,
30th Dec 1995 and
now this 28th Dec 1996 draw.
- The main number 29 has now failed to
appear for 36 consecutive
draws, which is the joint-second longest
absence in the history of
the lottery.
- The winning number pair 23, 48 has appeared
7 times since the lottery began, meaning it now shares the top of that
table with three other
such pairs.
- The 5-match prize (£1,372) was extremely close (only one
out) to the number of 5-match winners (1,373), which is the closest
the number of winners in a category has ever come to the prize amount
for the same category (the previous best was
four weeks ago with a difference of 27).
- Scratchcard sales took a major
nosedive (their largest percentage fall ever) because of the Christmas holiday
and hit their lowest level since the first week of their launch.
- Similarly,
Lucky Dip sales had their largest percentage
drop between two consecutive normal weeks ever.
- No matches on either of my tickets continues this desperately
poor losing run I've been having.
- £863,226 of unclaimed prizes (2.78% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 26th June 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #112 (Saturday 4th January 1997) [10 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #110 (Saturday 21st December 1996) [1 jackpot winner]
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