UK National Lottery #217

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 21st January 1998:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,094,212	2	£4,188,424	31.0%
5+bonus	£257,749	5	£1,288,745	9.5%
5 match	£1,320	610	£805,200	6.0%
4 match	£56	31,525	£1,765,400	13.1%
3 match	£10	545,672	£5,456,720	40.4%
Totals	577,814		£13,504,489	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		0.2% rise	£30,025,300

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	12	28	2	30	31	90	31
2nd	05	36	7	43	8	38	8
3rd	24	21	6	27	16	69	16
4th	35	28	0	28	5	Never	5
5th	38	33	3	36	1	2	1
6th	36	28	5	33	4	78	4
Bonus	34	25	8	33	9	25	9
Total	184	199	31	230	74	519	74
Avg.	26.3	28.4	4.4	32.9	10.6	74.1	10.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.37. One in every 52.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.92% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,530,743.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.

The number 5 is now only 2 appearances behind the number 44 in both the main number (36 times) and winning number (43 times) frequency tables.

The number 34 has now appeared 8 times as a bonus number, closing the gap to the table leaders to one.

The number 12 appeared for the first time for 31 draws, handing over the mantle of longest absentee to the number 15 (not appeared as a main or winning number for 29 draws).

I matched one number on my first ticket and nothing on my second - another loss just as my lottery subscription renewal form comes through the post !

Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 20th July 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #218 (Saturday 24th January 1998) [8 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #216 (Saturday 17th January 1998) [4 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #217

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 21st January 1998:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.56am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020