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Love dont cost a thing full movie 12311/20/2022 In the first half of this financial year it sold £3.47bn worth of tickets and handed out £1.93bn in prizes. You can work this out from the performance reports of the Camelot Group, which runs the national lottery. Photograph: Eamonn McCormack/WireImage 55.5pįor every £1 you spend on national lottery games, you will win just over 55p on average. It’s hard to imagine the emotional rollercoaster of thinking you have won the £16,293,830 jackpot only to end up with 1/133 of that total: £122,510. The most people to win the same jackpot was 133 – they all picked the numbers 7, 17, 23, 32, 38 and 42 on 14 January 1995. Even more disappointing, the smallest ever jackpot was won by two people, so they had to split the pot and take home a “mere” £360,076 each. It’s a massive drop from the biggest ever jackpot, on 6 January 1996 of £42,008,610. This is the smallest jackpot yet and it occurred quite recently, on 13 August 2014. If all numbers came up exactly as frequently, that would be a sign of foul play. But this is exactly the variation we’d expect from random draws. It has only been pulled out of the barrel 204 times, while the most common number 23 has come up 266 times. The lottery is 20 years old, and 20 is also the number that has appeared the fewest times. That is less likely than a fair coin landing on heads 23 times in a row (1 in 8.4m), and slightly more likely than a randomly selected person in England having been married to Katie Price (1 in 17.7m). There are 13,983,816 different ways to select six balls out of 49, which is why the odds of winning the lottery are said to be “one in 14m”. Here are the stats behind the numbers of the first 20 years. The first national lottery draw was on 19 November 1994.
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