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UK National Lottery #243
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 22nd April 1998:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £3,321,191 0 £0 0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus £145,986 7 £1,021,902 10.6%
5 match £861 741 £638,001 6.6%
4 match £36 38,666 £1,391,976 14.4%
3 match £10 662,005 £6,620,050 68.4%
Totals 701,419 £9,671,929 100.0%
Category Change Figure
Ticket sales 1.0% rise £28,904,347
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 37 24 5 29 4 3 3
2nd 12 32 3 35 2 14 2
3rd 10 27 5 32 3 17 3
4th 07 26 5 31 3 36 3
5th 09 33 7 40 4 1 1
6th 03 25 6 31 29 80 29
Bonus 46 26 8 34 10 37 10
Total 124 193 39 232 55 188 51
Avg. 17.7 27.6 5.6 33.1 7.9 26.9 7.3
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £13.79.
One in every 41.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.43% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,872,501.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.
- The first appearance of the number 3 for 29 draws has
handed over the longest main
and winning number absentee
crown over to the number 40, which has now failed to appear for
23 consecutive draws.
- The jackpot prize
was the lowest ever not to be won.
- The average prize was the lowest ever.
- The sum (78) of the 6 main numbers
was the third lowest ever.
- It was also the first time that 5 of the 6 main numbers were
all "month" numbers (<=12).
- When sorted in ascending order, the fifth number
(12) was the outright lowest number in that position
since the lottery began.
- I matched nothing on both of my tickets - yet another
loss to add to my 7-month string of defeats.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 19th October 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #244 (Saturday 25th April 1998) [5 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #242 (Saturday 18th April 1998) [4 jackpot winners]
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