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UK National Lottery #237
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 1st April 1998:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £4,955,119 0 £0 0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus £381,163 4 £1,524,652 18.6%
5 match £2,836 336 £952,896 11.6%
4 match £128 16,354 £2,093,312 25.5%
3 match £10 364,112 £3,641,120 44.3%
Totals 380,806 £8,211,980 100.0%
Category Change Figure
Ticket sales 0.3% fall £29,267,101
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 36 31 5 36 5 98 5
2nd 01 29 4 33 2 4 2
3rd 24 23 7 30 19 15 15
4th 02 30 3 33 3 93 3
5th 37 22 4 26 1 7 1
6th 38 36 3 39 5 22 5
Bonus 31 36 7 43 2 44 2
Total 169 207 33 240 37 283 33
Avg. 24.1 29.6 4.7 34.3 5.3 40.4 4.7
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 3 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.56.
One in every 76.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.30% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,172,922.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £60.
- The winning number pair 01, 31 has become only the 4th such
pair to have appeared 11 times in the
history of the lottery.
- The combination of a low consecutive pair and a high consecutive triple
resulted in very low numbers of winners and hence quite large prizes:
- The number of 5+bonus winners was the
joint lowest ever, meaning that the 5+bonus prize was
the highest ever for a Wednesday draw.
- The number of 4-match winners was the outright lowest ever for any draw,
again making the 4-match prize the highest there's been for a Wednesday
draw to date.
- The number of 3-match winners (and hence the 3-match prize pool) was
the second lowest in the history of the lottery.
- The total number of winners was the second lowest for any draw since
the lottery began.
- Ticket sales fell for a record 10th
consecutive draw.
- The Arthur machine has become the first one to have
been used 100 times.
- I matched nothing on either of my two tickets, so even
April Fools Day didn't help me win.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 28th September 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #238 (Saturday 4th April 1998) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #236 (Saturday 28th March 1998) [1 jackpot winner]
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