UK National Lottery #221

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 4th February 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,116,238           4    £4,464,952      32.8%
5+bonus        £41,631          33    £1,373,823      10.1%
5 match         £1,590         540      £858,600       6.3%
4 match            £67      28,158    £1,886,586      13.8%
3 match            £10     505,076    £5,050,760      37.0%
Totals                     533,811   £13,634,721     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.2% rise   £30,304,919   

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       32        27       2       29       2       22        2 
2nd       42        27       3       30      22       37       22 
3rd       17        31       4       35       1       20        1 
4th       45        33       7       40       9       50        9 
5th       13        20       4       24       9       80        9 
6th       35        29       0       29       4     Never       4 
Bonus     20        23      10       33       6       16        6 
Total    204       190      30      220      53      446       53
Avg.      29.1      27.1     4.3     31.4     7.6     63.7      7.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.54. One in every 56.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.76% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,100,734.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 10 wins totalling £100. This is by far the highest number of prior prizes won by a jackpot ticket to date.
• The number 20 has become the first one to appear ten times as a bonus number since the lottery began.
• The main number pair 35, 45 become only the second such pair to appear 9 times in the history of the lottery.
• I matched two numbers on my first ticket and one on my second ticket - yes, three numbers in all, but no win of course.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 3rd August 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #222 (Saturday 7th February 1998) [5 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #220 (Saturday 31st January 1998) [2 jackpot winners]

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