UK National Lottery #259
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.28pm BST on Wednesday 17th June 1998:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £1,796,487 2 £3,592,974 28.1%
5+bonus £50,251 22 £1,105,522 8.7%
5 match £885 780 £690,300 5.4%
4 match £40 37,311 £1,492,440 11.7%
3 match £10 587,742 £5,877,420 46.1%
Totals 625,857 £12,758,656 100.0%
Category Change Figure
Ticket sales 0.4% fall £28,415,524
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 17 35 5 40 4 28 4
2nd 02 37 4 41 1 18 1
3rd 27 36 2 38 1 101 1
4th 16 31 7 38 10 15 10
5th 20 26 11 37 7 21 7
6th 10 30 6 36 1 8 1
Bonus 39 21 2 23 6 146 6
Total 131 216 37 253 30 337 30
Avg. 18.7 30.9 5.3 36.1 4.3 48.1 4.3
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 5 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.39.
One in every 45.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.20% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,227,791.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
- This was only the second time that 3 of the main 6 numbers
(02, 10, 27)
had also appeared in the previous draw.
- The 23rd appearance of the winning number 39
still leaves it outright bottom of the winning number frequency
table, albeit
now only three appearances behind the rest of the pack.
- The second appearance
of the bonus number 39 also widened a
gap, but this time it was a gap of two to the non-showing of
both the bonus numbers 18 and 35.
- I matched nothing on either of my tickets, so being
inside a World Cup period hasn't enhanced my luck.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 14th December 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #260 (Saturday 20th June 1998) [7 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #258 (Saturday 13th June 1998) [6 jackpot winners]