UK National Lottery #204 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 6th December 1997:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 29th single rollover draw and the 32nd rollover in total, included £4,950,579 (37.3%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £8,336,379 (62.7%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,214,493	6	£13,286,958	38.5%
5+bonus	£102,601	25	£2,565,025	7.4%
5 match	£920	1,741	£1,601,720	4.7%
4 match	£41	84,435	£3,461,835	10.0%
3 match	£10	1,358,351	£13,583,510	39.4%
Totals	1,444,558		£34,499,048	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		12.4% rise	£18,401,282	19.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		2.7% rise	£77,323,017	80.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		8.4% rise	£65,811,152	68.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		3.4% fall	£29,913,147	31.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.4% rise	£95,724,299	87.2% of combined sales
Instants sales		1.5% fall	£14,075,203	12.8% of combined sales
Combined sales		3.6% rise	£109,799,502
Good causes		2.8% rise	£30,956,927.06	28.2% of combined sales

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.

		Updated Frequencies			Since Last Appeared
Drawn	Order	Main	Bonus	Total	Main	Bonus	Either
1st	30	27	5	32	15	31	15
2nd	05	34	7	41	3	25	3
3rd	19	22	2	24	3	164	3
4th	09	29	4	33	9	89	9
5th	21	23	5	28	2	62	2
6th	49	21	2	23	1	54	1
Bonus	43	32	5	37	17	90	17
Total	176	188	30	218	50	515	50
Avg.	25.1	26.9	4.3	31.1	7.1	73.6	7.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.88. One in every 45.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.20% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,803,097.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.

The main number 5 appeared for the 34th time, which puts it only four behind the table leader, the number 44. It also closed the gap to 3 to the leader (44 again) in the winning number table by appearing as a winning number for the 41st time.

The winning number pair 05, 43 has become only the second such pair to have appeared 10 times since the lottery began.

Less than 300,000 ticket combinations have failed to win a prize in any of the 204 lotteries to date, whilst four ticket combinations have now won 16 prizes since the lottery began.

I matched one number of each of my first, third and fourth tickets and nothing on my second ticket as another rollover passes me over.

A 5+bonus prize of £102,601 won by a ticket bought in the Enfield area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.

A 5+bonus prize of £102,601 won by a ticket bought in the Glasgow area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.

£1,361,543 of unclaimed prizes (3.17% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 4th June 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #205 (Wednesday 10th December 1997) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #203 (Wednesday 3rd December 1997) [No jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #204 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 6th December 1997:

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Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.56am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020