UK National Lottery #251

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 20th May 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,464,612           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus       £137,372          10    £1,373,720      16.1%
5 match         £2,289         375      £858,375      10.1%
4 match            £84      22,424    £1,883,616      22.1%
3 match            £10     439,868    £4,398,680      51.7%
Totals                     462,677    £8,514,391     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.8% rise   £28,854,385   

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        30       4       34      15       79       15 
2nd       42        33       4       37       2       19        2 
3rd       35        32       0       32       3     Never       3 
4th       36        35       5       40       6      112        6 
5th       31        39       7       46       9       14        9 
6th       15        22       4       26       6       64        6 
Bonus     10        28       6       34       1       25        1 
Total    180       219      30      249      42      564       42
Avg.      25.7      31.3     4.3     35.6     6.0     80.6      6.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 5 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.40. One in every 62.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.60% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,220,553.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
• The 22nd appearance of the main number 15 has left the number 39 two adrift at the bottom of that frequency table.
• Two 5+bonus prizes of £137,372 won by tickets bought in the Argyll & Bute and Solihull areas respectively remain unclaimed at the moment.
• I matched one number on my first ticket and none on my second, so going to a Tori Amos concert and missing the live update didn't bring me any luck.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 16th November 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #252 (Saturday 23rd May 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #250 (Saturday 16th May 1998) [4 jackpot winners]

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