UK National Lottery #236

Winning numbers drawn at 7.58pm GMT on Saturday 28th March 1998:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£7,248,380	1	£7,248,380	27.6%
5+bonus	£60,277	37	£2,230,249	8.5%
5 match	£1,369	1,018	£1,393,642	5.3%
4 match	£46	66,393	£3,054,078	11.6%
3 match	£10	1,234,857	£12,348,570	47.0%
Totals	1,302,306		£26,274,919	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		1.1% fall	£15,828,362	18.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		0.6% fall	£71,943,848	82.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.6% fall	£58,417,251	66.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.0% fall	£29,354,959	33.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.7% fall	£87,772,210	85.8% of combined sales
Instants sales		2.5% fall	£14,483,775	14.2% of combined sales
Combined sales		1.0% fall	£102,255,985
Good causes		0.6% fall	£28,871,931.52	28.2% 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	28	37	7	44	5	34	5
2nd	37	21	4	25	5	6	5
3rd	11	29	4	33	6	64	6
4th	23	27	4	31	2	75	2
5th	29	27	6	33	25	36	25
6th	13	23	5	28	11	9	9
Bonus	08	28	5	33	12	1	1
Total	149	192	35	227	66	225	53
Avg.	21.3	27.4	5.0	32.4	9.4	32.1	7.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.18. One in every 44.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.23% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,629,615.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.

The number 37 has moved off the bottom of the main number table with its 21st appearance, leaving the numbers 15 and 39 at the bottom with one less appearance.

Ticket sales dropped for a record 9th consecutive draw (relative to the previous week's equivalent draw i.e. Wed-to-Wed or Sat-to-Sat).

Lucky Dip sales dropped for a record 6th consecutive week.

Over £2 billion pounds has been awarded in jackpot prizes since the lottery began.

In a staggering mistake, the third ball of Saturday's first ever TV Dreams TV Home Play draw was drawn using the wrong ball set, so there's two sets of TV Home Play numbers that Camelot will honour after re-drawing the third number:
On-camera TV Home Play numbers: 49 11 35 55
Off-camera TV Home Play numbers: 49 11 31 55
The Studio Play jackpot was £85,000.

I matched two numbers on my first ticket and one on my second ticket, so the first National Lottery Big Ticket show did me no favours, that's for sure.

£274,709 of unclaimed prizes (0.70% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 24th September 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #237 (Wednesday 1st April 1998) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #235 (Wednesday 25th March 1998) [4 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #236

Winning numbers drawn at 7.58pm GMT on Saturday 28th 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