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UK National Lottery #189 (Super Draw #23)
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 15th October 1997:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £5,000,000 | 1 | £5,000,000 | 37.6% |
| 5+bonus | £282,623 | 5 | £1,413,115 | 10.6% |
| 5 match | £2,794 | 316 | £882,904 | 6.7% |
| 4 match | £101 | 19,238 | £1,943,038 | 14.6% |
| 3 match | £10 | 404,929 | £4,049,290 | 30.5% |
| Totals | 424,489 | £13,288,347 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure |
| Ticket sales | 1.1% fall | £28,625,076 |
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 6 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £31.30.
One in every 67.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.48% of players).
- This was the 23rd Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £5,000,000.
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,609,102.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
- The 15th appearance of the rarest number
(39) has moved it to within one of the next
least frequent main numbers.
Its 16th appearance as a winning number has also narrowed its
"basement gap" to two in that frequency
table.
- As if that wasn't enough, the number 39's appearance after
being absent for 41 consecutive draws has meant that the current
longest main number absence
now belongs to the number 42 (36 draws) and the equivalent
longest winning number
absence is
now held by the number 48 (31 draws).
- The winning number triple
17, 30, 47 has now
appeared
four times since the lottery began
and joins eight other such triples in achieving this.
- The number of prize winners was very
low in all the categories, including the second lowest number of 5+bonus
winners and the third lowest number of 4-match winners ever.
- I matched one number on my second and fourth tickets, but nothing
on my first and third tickets, which meant I got a zero return for
my £4 "investment"...
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 13th April 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #190 (Saturday 18th October 1997) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #188 (Saturday 11th October 1997) [1 jackpot winner]
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