UK National Lottery #137
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Wednesday 16th April 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
Jackpot | £1,666,114 | 2 | £3,332,228 | 28.8% |
5+bonus | £93,209 | 11 | £1,025,299 | 8.9% |
5 match | £1,222 | 524 | £640,328 | 5.5% |
4 match | £47 | 29,888 | £1,404,736 | 12.2% |
3 match | £10 | 516,264 | £5,162,640 | 44.6% |
Totals | 546,689 | £11,565,231 | 100.0% |
Category | Change | Figure |
Ticket sales | 0.7% fall | £25,712,829 |
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 £21.16.
One in every 47.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.13% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,225,090.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- The main number 15 has now failed to appear for 37 consecutive
draws, which is the outright third longest such
absence in the history of the lottery.
- The ticket sales hit their lowest
level ever yet again.
- These were the lowest ever jackpot and total
prize pools for a draw where the jackpot
was won. The 5+bonus, 5-match and 4-match prize pools were the lowest
seen for any draw since the lottery began.
- I apologise for the delayed updates and comments, which were
due to the fact that I was in Philadelphia, PA during this draw, attending an
HP-UX conference.
- I failed to match a number on my first ticket and only matched one
number on my second ticket,
so I didn't win during my US trip (I won during my last
foreign trip though).
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 13th October 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #138 (Saturday 19th April 1997) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #136 (Saturday 12th April 1997) [8 jackpot winners]