UK National Lottery #279

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 26th August 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,034,238           2    £4,068,476      32.1%
5+bonus       £113,803          11    £1,251,833       9.9%
5 match         £1,719         455      £782,145       6.2%
4 match            £67      25,490    £1,707,830      13.5%
3 match            £10     485,857    £4,858,570      38.3%
Totals                     511,815   £12,668,854     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.8% rise   £28,183,477   

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       43        43       6       49       9       25        9 
2nd       26        32       3       35      18       56       18 
3rd       27        40       2       42       1      121        1 
4th       03        31       6       37       3      116        3 
5th       30        34       7       41      13       67       13 
6th       20        28      12       40      11        4        4 
Bonus     45        39       8       47       5      108        5 
Total    194       247      44      291      60      497       53
Avg.      27.7      35.3     6.3     41.6     8.6     71.0      7.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 5 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.75. One in every 55.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.82% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,687,723.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £50.
• I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second ticket, so it dashed my hopes of a win for a second consecutive Wednesday...
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 22nd February 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #280 (Saturday 29th August 1998) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #278 (Saturday 22nd August 1998) [5 jackpot winners]

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