UK National Lottery #220

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 31st January 1998:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,891,878           2    £9,783,756      36.0%
5+bonus       £111,495          27    £3,010,365      11.1%
5 match         £3,120         603    £1,881,360       6.9%
4 match           £103      39,946    £4,114,438      15.1%
3 match            £10     840,373    £8,403,730      30.9%
Totals                     880,951   £27,193,649     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      1.4% rise   £16,751,511     18.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.7% rise   £73,983,924     81.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.9% rise   £60,485,882     66.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.7% rise   £30,249,553     33.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.8% rise   £90,735,435     86.3% of combined sales
Instants sales           9.5% fall   £14,447,200     13.7% of combined sales
Combined sales           0.7% fall  £105,182,635   
Good causes              0.8% fall   £29,573,621.05  28.1% 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       40        34       3       37      10       77       10 
2nd       46        24       7       31       4       14        4 
3rd       17        30       4       34      13       19       13 
4th       30        29       7       36      14        8        8 
5th       22        27       6       33      15        2        2 
6th       48        30       3       33       4      113        4 
Bonus     10        23       3       26       6      163        6 
Total    213       197      33      230      66      396       47
Avg.      30.4      28.1     4.7     32.9     9.4     56.6      6.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 6 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.87. One in every 68.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.46% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,817,563.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
• The main number pair 17, 40 is the only such pair to have appeared 9 times since the lottery began.
• This was the 15th consecutive week (an all-time record) that over £1 million in prizes had remained unclaimed for 180 days.
• I matched one number on my first ticket and nothing on my second ticket as another Saturday attempt to become a multi-millionaire fails yet again.
• £932,760 of unclaimed prizes (2.29% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 30th July 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #221 (Wednesday 4th February 1998) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #219 (Wednesday 28th January 1998) [2 jackpot winners]

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