UK National Lottery #520 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 16th December 2000:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 68th single rollover draw and the 73rd rollover in total, included £3,453,166 (29.6%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £8,230,232 (70.4%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,841,699	2	£11,683,398	42.9%
5+bonus	£158,273	16	£2,532,368	9.3%
5 match	£2,633	601	£1,582,433	5.8%
4 match	£92	37,513	£3,451,196	12.7%
3 match	£10	799,440	£7,994,400	29.3%
Totals	837,572		£27,243,795	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		11.0% rise	£52,937,263	67.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.6% fall	£25,109,234	32.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		6.6% rise	£78,046,497

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	21	55	12	67	8	55	8
2nd	39	52	4	56	1	107	1
3rd	26	61	10	71	15	19	15
4th	29	62	10	72	12	5	5
5th	17	63	8	71	12	8	8
6th	34	53	16	69	1	27	1
Bonus	37	52	14	66	4	37	4
Total	203	398	74	472	53	258	42
Avg.	29.0	56.9	10.6	67.4	7.6	36.9	6.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Vyvyan machine and the average main Lotto prize was £32.53. One in every 63.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.58% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,299,333.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.

The 52nd appearance of the main number 39 has left the numbers 13 and 20 four adrift at the basement of the main number frequency table. Its 56th winning number appearance also widened the gap to the rarest winning number (13) to two.

Ticket sales were the worst ever for a weekend rollover draw.

This was the first time that four consecutive Saturday draws had the same number (2) of jackpot winners.

Camelot incorrectly calculated the individual jackpot prize (their figure is £1 too high) - here's the calculations:

Ticket sales          52,937,263 
Prize pool            23,821,768.30  (45% of sales rounded down to nearest 10p)
Minus 3-match pool    -7,994,400
Pools fund            15,827,368,30
Jackpot prize pool     8,230,231.516 (52% of pools fund)
Rollover              +3,453,166
Jackpot prize pool    11,683,397.516 (including rollover amount)
Divide by winners (2)  5,841,698.758
Round down             5,841,698

As usual (and wrongly) for a rollover, Camelot have rounded up instead of down in the final line of the calculation, despite the rulebooks specifically stating it should be rounded down. This is the 10th draw where Camelot have made this £1 rounding error.

I matched one number on my second ticket and nothing on my three other tickets, so no Christmas bonus for me then.

Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 14th June 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #521 (Wednesday 20th December 2000) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #519 (Wednesday 13th December 2000) [No jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #520 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 16th December 2000:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.49am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020