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UK National Lottery #280
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.13pm BST on Saturday 29th August 1998:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £2,647,377 3 £7,942,131 32.1%
5+bonus £222,157 11 £2,443,727 9.9%
5 match £2,647 577 £1,527,319 6.2%
4 match £75 44,392 £3,329,400 13.5%
3 match £10 945,416 £9,454,160 38.3%
Totals 990,399 £24,696,737 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W) 1.4% rise £15,014,491 18.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W) 0.0% rise £68,118,966 81.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat) 0.0% fall £54,949,980 66.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed) 0.8% rise £28,183,477 33.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W) 0.3% rise £83,133,457 86.1% of combined sales
Instants sales 10.8% fall £13,387,762 13.9% of combined sales
Combined sales 1.4% fall £96,521,219
Good causes 2.1% fall £27,373,482.89 28.4% of combined sales
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 10 32 6 38 2 29 2
2nd 44 47 7 54 3 67 3
3rd 37 25 5 30 37 40 37
4th 42 38 5 43 7 25 7
5th 12 37 3 40 5 51 5
6th 45 40 8 48 6 1 1
Bonus 20 28 13 41 1 5 1
Total 210 247 47 294 61 218 56
Avg. 30.0 35.3 6.7 42.0 8.7 31.1 8.0
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 6 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.94.
One in every 55.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.80% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,088,593.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £126.
- The number 44 has now opened a gap of two
at the top of the main number frequency
table after
its 47th such appearance and a gap of one at the summit
of the winning number frequency
table after being drawn
as a winning number for the 54th time.
- The 25th appearance of the main number 37 has
dragged it away from the basement position it was sharing with
the number 39.
- It was also the first appearance of the number 37 for
37 draws, which meant it handed the longest absentee
mantles over to the numbers
4 (30 draws since last appeared as a
main or
winning number) and 6
(also 30 draws, but as a main number only).
- The number 20 has now appeared 13 times as a
bonus number, which puts it
outright top of the bonus number frequency table.
- The 9th playslip row
(numbers 41-45) became the first one to have had 200 main
numbers drawn in that row since the lottery began.
- This draw had the lowest Saturday ticket sales for almost a
year (and that draw last September wasn't even televised !).
- I matched two numbers on my first ticket and one number
on my second, so no surprise that I lost yet again.
- £1,027,664 of unclaimed prizes (2.75% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 25th February 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #281 (Wednesday 2nd September 1998) [16 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #279 (Wednesday 26th August 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
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