UK National Lottery #219

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 28th January 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,243,999           2    £4,487,998      33.0%
5+bonus       £230,153           6    £1,380,918      10.2%
5 match         £2,136         404      £862,944       6.3%
4 match            £72      26,057    £1,876,104      13.8%
3 match            £10     498,153    £4,981,530      36.7%
Totals                     524,622   £13,589,494     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.7% rise   £30,249,553   

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       15        17       4       21      31       32       31 
2nd       04        30       3       33       1       38        1 
3rd       12        29       2       31       2       92        2 
4th       32        26       2       28       6       20        6 
5th       47        29       9       38       5       10        5 
6th       31        32       6       38       3       26        3 
Bonus     14        35       6       41       1       11        1 
Total    155       198      32      230      49      229       49
Avg.      22.1      28.3     4.6     32.9     7.0     32.7      7.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.90. One in every 57.7 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 £9,257,278.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
• The number 15 appeared as a main number for the 17th time, but this still leaves it at the outright bottom of the main number frequency table (adrift by one appearance). Its 21st winning number appearance also leaves the number 39 two adrift at the bottom of that frequency table.
• With the number 15 finally appearing for the first time in 31 draws, the mantles for the longest absentees now go to the numbers 44 (27 draws since it last appeared as a main number) and 16 (25 draws sinces its last winning number appearance).
• I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second ticket to repeat a sadly familiar losing pattern...
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 27th July 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #220 (Saturday 31st January 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #218 (Saturday 24th January 1998) [8 jackpot winners]

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