UK National Lottery #129

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.27pm GMT on Wednesday 19th March 1997:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

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 Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.77. One in every 59.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.69% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,734,545.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
• The number 32 appeared as a bonus ball for first time ever, leaving the numbers 18, 35 and 42 as the only three numbers not to have been drawn as a bonus ball.
• The appearance of the winning number 32 also meant that the number 6 takes over has the current longest winning number absentee (21 draws since it was last drawn as one of the 7 balls).
• The winning number triples 16, 17, 32 and 29, 32, 40 have joined 27 other such triples that have appeared 3 or more times since the lottery began.
• This was the first time the jackpot wasn't won since the midweek draw was introduced.
• The ticket sales were the worst ever for a lottery draw, which impacted several statistics:
  • The numbers of 5-match, 4-match, 3-match and total winners were all the second lowest since the lottery began.
  • The unwon jackpot amount was the lowest such unwon jackpot ever.
  • The 3-match prize pool was the second lowest in the history of the lottery.
  • The total prize pool was the lowest ever.
• One match on each of my two tickets predictably failed to halt the current dismal run (10 draws now without a win...).
• A 5+bonus prize of £154,011 won by a ticket bought in the Stoke-on-Trent area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 15th September 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #130 (Saturday 22nd March 1997) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #128 (Saturday 15th March 1997) [6 jackpot winners]

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