UK National Lottery #298

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 31st October 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,013,869           3    £6,041,607      24.5%
5+bonus        £74,358          25    £1,858,950       7.5%
5 match           £782       1,484    £1,160,488       4.7%
4 match            £31      80,347    £2,490,757      10.1%
3 match            £10   1,314,024   £13,140,240      53.2%
Totals                   1,395,883   £24,692,042     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      0.4% rise   £15,289,911     18.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.3% fall   £68,080,356     81.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.0% fall   £55,019,378     66.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.4% fall   £28,350,889     34.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.2% fall   £83,370,267     86.9% of combined sales
Instants sales           3.3% rise   £12,594,000     13.1% of combined sales
Combined sales           0.3% rise   £95,964,267   
Good causes              0.3% rise   £27,298,764.04  28.4% 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       14        46      10       56       9       31        9 
2nd       05        43       9       52       5       42        5 
3rd       12        40       3       43       7       69        7 
4th       18        32       1       33       8       37        8 
5th       38        47       4       51       9        6        6 
6th       09        41      11       52      11        4        4 
Bonus     35        37       2       39      10       36       10 
Total    131       286      40      326      59      225       49
Avg.      18.7      40.9     5.7     46.6     8.4     32.1      7.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.69. One in every 39.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.54% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,625,469.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £87.
• Remarkably, there are now four numbers tying on 47 appearances at the top of the main number frequency table: 25, 28, 38 (the most recent addition) and 44.
• The number 14 has now joined the number 25 at the top of the winning number frequency table after its 56th such appearance.
• The 12th appearance of the main number pair 14, 38 has cut the gap to the leader (01, 31) to two.
• I matched one number on each of my two tickets, sort of matching Liverpool and Everton soccer teams both losing today...
• £1,199,505 of unclaimed prizes (3.20% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 29th April 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #299 (Wednesday 4th November 1998) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #297 (Wednesday 28th October 1998) [3 jackpot winners]

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