UK National Lottery #242

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.02pm BST on Saturday 18th April 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,052,421           4    £8,209,684      31.6%
5+bonus        £61,611          41    £2,526,051       9.7%
5 match         £1,697         930    £1,578,210       6.1%
4 match            £62      55,318    £3,429,716      13.2%
3 match            £10   1,023,042   £10,230,420      39.4%
Totals                   1,079,335   £25,974,081     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      3.3% fall   £15,150,725     17.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      1.0% fall   £71,273,706     82.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.3% fall   £57,818,388     66.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.7% fall   £28,606,043     33.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.4% fall   £86,424,431     86.4% of combined sales
Instants sales           7.3% fall   £13,599,895     13.6% of combined sales
Combined sales           2.3% fall  £100,024,326   
Good causes              0.4% rise   £28,761,268.36  28.8% 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       29        29       6       35       1       42        1 
2nd       33        28       5       33       4       46        4 
3rd       42        31       4       35      15       10       10 
4th       13        24       5       29       6       15        6 
5th       31        38       7       45       2        5        2 
6th       01        31       4       35       1        9        1 
Bonus     09        32       7       39       3       14        3 
Total    158       213      38      251      32      141       27
Avg.      22.6      30.4     5.4     35.9     4.6     20.1      3.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.06. One in every 53.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.87% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,005,672.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
• The main number pair 01, 31 has become the first such pair to appear 10 times since the lottery began. It has also notched 12 appearances as a winning number pair, making it the outright leader of that frequency table as well.
• Ticket sales dropped to their lowest level for a Saturday draw for 7 months.
• I matched two numbers on my first ticket and one on my second ticket to extend what seems to be a never-ending run of losses.
• £993,382 of unclaimed prizes (2.56% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 15th October 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #243 (Wednesday 22nd April 1998) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #241 (Wednesday 15th April 1998) [3 jackpot winners]

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