UK National Lottery #291

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm BST on Wednesday 7th October 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,950,249           1    £3,950,249      30.4%
5+bonus       £110,496          11    £1,215,456       9.4%
5 match         £1,540         493      £759,220       5.8%
4 match            £57      28,954    £1,650,378      12.7%
3 match            £10     542,618    £5,426,180      41.7%
Totals                     572,077   £13,001,483     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.2% fall   £28,939,588   

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       12        39       3       42       2       62        2 
2nd       29        35       8       43       3        7        3 
3rd       24        28       7       35       5       69        5 
4th       02        42       5       47       8       20        8 
5th       30        35       7       42      12       79       12 
6th       33        36       6       42       7       38        7 
Bonus     41        32       7       39      19        1        1 
Total    171       247      43      290      56      276       38
Avg.      24.4      35.3     6.1     41.4     8.0     39.4      5.4

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 3 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £22.73. One in every 50.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.98% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,367,076.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.
• The number 4 has failed to appear as a winning number for 41 consecutive draws, which is the joint third longest ever such absence.
• The number 41 is the 10th bonus number to have appeared in two consecutive draws since the lottery began.
• I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second ticket to continue my string of failures.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 5th April 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #292 (Saturday 10th October 1998) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #290 (Saturday 3rd October 1998) [2 jackpot winners]

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