UK National Lottery #311

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 16th December 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,136,006           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus        £90,901          14    £1,272,614      14.8%
5 match         £2,259         352      £795,168       9.2%
4 match            £74      23,606    £1,746,844      20.2%
3 match            £10     481,671    £4,816,710      55.8%
Totals                     505,643    £8,631,336     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.5% fall   £28,379,041   

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       11        43       4       47       4      139        4 
2nd       19        29       3       32      10       41       10 
3rd       40        44       3       47       2      168        2 
4th       20        29      13       42      32       31       31 
5th       24        31       8       39      11       18       11 
6th       29        37       8       45      10       27       10 
Bonus     09        43      12       55       7       17        7 
Total    152       256      51      307      76      441       75
Avg.      21.7      36.6     7.3     43.9    10.9     63.0     10.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.07. One in every 56.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.78% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,737,508.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £60.
• Both of the rarest winning numbers, 19 and 20, made their 29th appearance to join the number 37 at the table basement.
• The 32nd appearance of the number 19 brings it to within one of other numbers at the bottom of the winning number table.
• I matched nothing on my first ticket and only one number on my second ticket, but if this was an (unlikely) double rollover, then I'd have won £10 on my fifth ticket.
• A 5+bonus prize of £90,901 won by a ticket bought in the Salisbury area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 14th June 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #312 (Saturday 19th December 1998) [5 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #310 (Saturday 12th December 1998) [1 jackpot winner]

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