UK National Lottery #246

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.02pm BST on Saturday 2nd May 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £8,355,262           1    £8,355,262      32.0%
5+bonus       £183,632          14    £2,570,848       9.8%
5 match         £1,359       1,182    £1,606,338       6.2%
4 match            £65      53,839    £3,499,535      13.4%
3 match            £10   1,006,659   £10,066,590      38.6%
Totals                   1,061,695   £26,098,573     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      5.9% fall   £17,140,596     18.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      1.8% fall   £73,895,581     81.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)     10.0% fall   £58,076,451     63.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     14.0% rise   £32,959,726     36.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      2.6% fall   £91,036,177     85.8% of combined sales
Instants sales           2.4% rise   £15,035,986     14.2% of combined sales
Combined sales           1.9% fall  £106,072,163   
Good causes              1.7% fall   £30,365,580.61  28.6% 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       02        31       4       35       9        5        5 
2nd       49        26       2       28      23       96       23 
3rd       04        32       3       35      16       65       16 
4th       29        30       6       36       4       46        4 
5th       24        25       7       32       8       24        8 
6th       16        29       7       36      15        2        2 
Bonus     47        31      10       41       7       37        7 
Total    171       204      39      243      82      275       65
Avg.      24.4      29.1     5.6     34.7    11.7     39.3      9.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.58. One in every 54.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.83% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,492,065.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
• The appearance of number 49 has handed over the longest absentee mantles to the main numbers 8 and 20 (both have failed to appear for 22 draws) and the winning number 32 (not seen for 21 draws).
• The bonus number 47 has closed the gap to one to the frequency table leader (the number 20) by appearing for the 10th time.
• I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second to continue my worst-ever losing sequence.
• £1,332,210 of unclaimed prizes (2.90% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 29th October 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #247 (Wednesday 6th May 1998) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #245 (Wednesday 29th April 1998) [4 jackpot winners]

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