UK National Lottery #262

Winning numbers drawn at 8.53pm BST on Saturday 27th June 1998:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,024,299	6	£6,145,794	24.6%
5+bonus	£52,528	36	£1,891,008	7.6%
5 match	£679	1,739	£1,180,781	4.7%
4 match	£31	83,227	£2,580,037	10.3%
3 match	£10	1,318,180	£13,181,800	52.8%
Totals	1,403,188		£24,979,420	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		1.3% fall	£14,799,273	17.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		0.4% fall	£68,758,093	82.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.0% fall	£55,556,987	66.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.5% fall	£28,000,379	33.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.5% fall	£83,557,366	86.8% of combined sales
Instants sales		9.9% fall	£12,663,434	13.2% of combined sales
Combined sales		1.9% fall	£96,220,800
Good causes		1.4% fall	£27,463,332.08	28.5% 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	11	31	4	35	11	90	11
2nd	43	40	6	46	10	8	8
3rd	09	36	8	44	5	15	5
4th	07	29	5	34	4	55	4
5th	23	31	4	35	6	101	6
6th	30	32	7	39	33	50	33
Bonus	35	33	1	34	10	Never	10
Total	158	232	35	267	79	581	77
Avg.	22.6	33.1	5.0	38.1	11.3	83.0	11.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.80. One in every 39.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.53% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,204,638.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £50.

The first ever appearance of the number 35 as a bonus number now means that all numbers have been drawn at least once as a bonus number. It's also remarkable that the last two numbers not to appear as bonus numbers have appeared as such in consecutive draws.

The first appearance of the winning number 30 for 33 draws has handed over the longest winning number absentee mantle to the number 37 (not been seen as a winning number for 19 draws).

The 400th yellow winning ball has finally made its appearance, more than any other colour.

The amount given to Good Causes dropped for a record fifth consecutive week.

I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second ticket to inevitably continue my almost infinitely long losing streak.

£724,824 of unclaimed prizes (1.93% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 24th December 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #263 (Wednesday 1st July 1998) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #261 (Wednesday 24th June 1998) [2 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #262

Winning numbers drawn at 8.53pm BST on Saturday 27th 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