UK National Lottery #247
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 6th May 1998:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £2,955,369 1 £2,955,369 22.6%
5+bonus £36,373 25 £909,325 7.0%
5 match £660 861 £568,260 4.3%
4 match £28 43,574 £1,220,072 9.3%
3 match £10 743,730 £7,437,300 56.8%
Totals 788,191 £13,090,326 100.0%
Category Change Figure
Ticket sales 11.5% fall £29,157,117
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 22 31 6 37 3 29 3
2nd 19 24 2 26 9 207 9
3rd 27 34 2 36 20 89 20
4th 06 28 5 33 12 90 12
5th 14 38 7 45 17 8 8
6th 07 27 5 32 4 40 4
Bonus 09 33 8 41 4 5 4
Total 104 215 35 250 69 468 60
Avg. 14.9 30.7 5.0 35.7 9.9 66.9 8.6
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 7 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £16.61.
One in every 37.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.70% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,344,984.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- Because of the low numbers, this draw had the highest number
of 3-match and total winners of
any normal Wednesday draw to date.
- The 4-match prize was the joint lowest Wednesday 4-match
prize ever and the joint second lowest 4-match prize of all time.
- For draws where the jackpot was won, the jackpot prize
for this draw was the second lowest since the lottery began.
- The 5+bonus, 5-match and 4-match prize pools were all the
second lowest ever.
- I matched nothing on my first ticket and two numbers on my
second ticket, which really didn't surprise me at all (yes, I
lost again).
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 2nd November 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #248 (Saturday 9th May 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #246 (Saturday 2nd May 1998) [1 jackpot winner]