UK National Lottery #289

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm BST on Wednesday 30th September 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,626,121           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus        £69,733          16    £1,115,728      11.9%
5 match         £1,051         663      £696,813       7.4%
4 match            £43      35,306    £1,518,158      16.1%
3 match            £10     607,940    £6,079,400      64.6%
Totals                     643,925    £9,410,099     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            21.8% fall   £29,006,025   

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        34       6       40       7       38        7 
2nd       31        45       8       53      13       31       13 
3rd       12        38       3       41       9       60        9 
4th       28        47       7       54       2       87        2 
5th       14        45      10       55       2       22        2 
6th       38        46       3       49      11       74       11 
Bonus     27        44       4       48       3        2        2 
Total    160       299      41      340      47      314       46
Avg.      22.9      42.7     5.9     48.6     6.7     44.9      6.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £14.61. One in every 45.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.22% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,581,491.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 10 wins totalling £100. This was only the third time that a jackpot ticket had won 10 prizes in prior draws.
• The 47th appearance of the main number 28 has put it joint top of that frequency table (level with the number 44).
• Similarly, the 55th appearance of the winning number 14 has put it level with the number 25 at the top of that frequency table.
• This draw had the second lowest average prize of all time.
• I matched one number on each of my two tickets to inevitably extend my current losing run.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 29th March 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #290 (Saturday 3rd October 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #288 (Saturday 26th September 1998) [7 jackpot winners]

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