UK National Lottery #234

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 21st March 1998:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,795,989	5	£8,979,945	34.0%
5+bonus	£138,153	20	£2,763,060	10.5%
5 match	£2,293	753	£1,726,629	6.5%
4 match	£79	47,571	£3,758,109	14.2%
3 match	£10	917,954	£9,179,540	34.8%
Totals	966,303		£26,407,283	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		0.5% fall	£16,001,878	18.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		0.6% fall	£72,411,927	81.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.8% fall	£58,774,812	66.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.3% fall	£29,638,993	33.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.6% fall	£88,413,805	85.6% of combined sales
Instants sales		1.1% rise	£14,857,056	14.4% of combined sales
Combined sales		0.3% fall	£103,270,861
Good causes		0.0% rise	£29,057,046.75	28.1% 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	41	28	5	33	5	36	5
2nd	15	20	4	24	2	47	2
3rd	02	29	3	32	2	90	2
4th	26	26	3	29	2	11	2
5th	23	26	4	30	3	73	3
6th	43	35	5	40	4	30	4
Bonus	05	37	8	45	9	55	9
Total	155	201	32	233	27	342	27
Avg.	22.1	28.7	4.6	33.3	3.9	48.9	3.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £27.33. One in every 60.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.64% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,597,549.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.

The number 15 has joined the numbers 37 and 19 at the bottom of the main number frequency table by appearing for the 20th time. Its appearance also leaves the number 39 three adrift at the basement of the winning number frequency table.

The winning number pair 05, 43 has become only the second such pair to have appeared 11 times since the lottery began.

It's the 7th consecutive draw where ticket sales have fallen (relative to the previous week's equivalent draw i.e. Wed-to-Wed or Sat-to-Sat), which has never happened before.

For the first time ever, Lucky Dip sales dropped for the 5th consecutive week.

All colours have now appeared at least 300 times as winning number balls.

I matched nothing on my first ticket and only one number on my second ticket to continue my terrible run of luck.

£969,848 of unclaimed prizes (2.44% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 17th September 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #235 (Wednesday 25th March 1998) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #233 (Wednesday 18th March 1998) [1 jackpot winner]

UK National Lottery #234

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 21st March 1998:

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Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.56am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020