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UK National Lottery #236
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Winning numbers drawn at 7.58pm GMT on Saturday 28th March 1998:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £7,248,380 1 £7,248,380 27.6%
5+bonus £60,277 37 £2,230,249 8.5%
5 match £1,369 1,018 £1,393,642 5.3%
4 match £46 66,393 £3,054,078 11.6%
3 match £10 1,234,857 £12,348,570 47.0%
Totals 1,302,306 £26,274,919 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W) 1.1% fall £15,828,362 18.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W) 0.6% fall £71,943,848 82.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat) 0.6% fall £58,417,251 66.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed) 1.0% fall £29,354,959 33.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W) 0.7% fall £87,772,210 85.8% of combined sales
Instants sales 2.5% fall £14,483,775 14.2% of combined sales
Combined sales 1.0% fall £102,255,985
Good causes 0.6% fall £28,871,931.52 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 28 37 7 44 5 34 5
2nd 37 21 4 25 5 6 5
3rd 11 29 4 33 6 64 6
4th 23 27 4 31 2 75 2
5th 29 27 6 33 25 36 25
6th 13 23 5 28 11 9 9
Bonus 08 28 5 33 12 1 1
Total 149 192 35 227 66 225 53
Avg. 21.3 27.4 5.0 32.4 9.4 32.1 7.6
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 1 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.18.
One in every 44.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.23% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,629,615.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- The number 37 has moved off the bottom of
the main number table
with its 21st appearance, leaving the numbers
15 and 39 at the bottom with one
less appearance.
- Ticket sales dropped for a record
9th consecutive draw (relative to
the previous week's equivalent draw i.e. Wed-to-Wed or Sat-to-Sat).
- Lucky Dip sales dropped for a record 6th consecutive week.
- Over £2 billion pounds has been awarded in jackpot
prizes since the lottery began.
- In a staggering mistake, the third ball of Saturday's first ever
TV Dreams TV Home Play draw was drawn using the wrong ball set,
so there's two sets of TV Home Play numbers that Camelot will honour after
re-drawing the third number:
On-camera TV Home Play numbers: 49 11 35 55
Off-camera TV Home Play numbers: 49 11 31 55
The Studio Play jackpot was £85,000.
- I matched two numbers on my first ticket and one on my
second ticket, so the first National Lottery Big Ticket
show did me no favours, that's for sure.
- £274,709 of unclaimed prizes (0.70% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 24th September 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #237 (Wednesday 1st April 1998) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #235 (Wednesday 25th March 1998) [4 jackpot winners]
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