UK National Lottery #260

Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm BST on Saturday 20th June 1998:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,182,337	7	£8,276,359	33.1%
5+bonus	£181,898	14	£2,546,572	10.2%
5 match	£1,442	1,103	£1,590,526	6.3%
4 match	£70	49,962	£3,497,340	14.0%
3 match	£10	909,504	£9,095,040	36.4%
Totals	960,590		£25,005,837	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		0.1% fall	£14,990,145	17.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		1.5% fall	£69,005,636	82.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.6% fall	£55,580,257	66.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.4% fall	£28,415,524	33.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.2% fall	£83,995,781	85.7% of combined sales
Instants sales		1.1% rise	£14,060,949	14.3% of combined sales
Combined sales		0.9% fall	£98,056,730
Good causes		0.5% fall	£27,866,260.37	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	40	7	47	6	21	6
2nd	38	40	3	43	6	45	6
3rd	27	37	2	39	1	102	1
4th	31	41	8	49	4	2	2
5th	47	33	11	44	8	12	8
6th	01	34	5	39	4	15	4
Bonus	32	29	4	33	35	8	8
Total	190	254	40	294	64	205	35
Avg.	27.1	36.3	5.7	42.0	9.1	29.3	5.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £26.03. One in every 57.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.73% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,122,953.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £70.

After appearing for the 41st time, the number 31 is now joint top of the main number frequency table with the number 44. Its 49th appearance as a winning number also puts it outright top of that frequency table.

The main number pair 01, 31 has now appeared 12 times, which gives it a lead of two at the top of the main number pairs frequency table and a lead of three after its 14th appearance as a winning number pair.

Ticket sales were the worst for a Saturday draw since way back in December 1994 (only the second month of the lottery !). The only Sunday draw to date had worse ticket sales, but that was because it wasn't televised.

One ticket combination has now won 20 prizes since the lottery began.

I matched nothing on my first ticket and two numbers on my second, so a red card there for my continued failure to win.

£1,434,705 of unclaimed prizes (3.80% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 17th December 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #261 (Wednesday 24th June 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #259 (Wednesday 17th June 1998) [2 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #260

Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm BST on Saturday 20th June 1998:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.55am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020