UK National Lottery #314

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 26th December 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £7,724,025           1    £7,724,025      32.7%
5+bonus       £216,056          11    £2,376,616      10.0%
5 match         £1,766         841    £1,485,206       6.3%
4 match            £69      46,882    £3,234,858      13.7%
3 match            £10     880,301    £8,803,010      37.3%
Totals                     928,036   £23,623,715     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)     25.6% fall   £14,526,292     17.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      5.4% fall   £68,128,727     82.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)     16.8% fall   £52,570,901     63.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      6.0% rise   £30,084,118     36.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      9.7% fall   £82,655,019     88.8% of combined sales
Instants sales          12.2% fall   £10,428,274     11.2% of combined sales
Combined sales          10.0% fall   £93,083,293   
Good causes             19.2% fall   £23,631,720.77  25.4% 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       08        34       6       40       9       32        9 
2nd       02        47       5       52      11       43       11 
3rd       32        35       5       40      14       48       14 
4th       35        40       2       42       6       16        6 
5th       41        38       8       46       4       17        4 
6th       11        44       4       48       3      142        3 
Bonus     04        37       4       41       1      133        1 
Total    133       275      34      309      48      431       48
Avg.      19.0      39.3     4.9     44.1     6.9     61.6      6.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 5 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.46. One in every 56.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.77% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,700,869.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
• Ticket sales were the worst for a Saturday draw for over 4 years (in fact, since the third draw !), although bad weather and the Christmas break didn't help.
• Scratchcard sales were the lowest ever for a full week of sales and this meant that the combined scratchcard and ticket sales were the lowest since the first midweek draw began way back in February 1997 !
• I matched nothing on either of my two tickets but, to depress me in this Christmas season, I'd have won £10 on my fourth ticket if Camelot had bothered to make this a Super Draw like they should have done.
• A 5+bonus prize of £216,056 won by a ticket bought in the Buckinghamshire area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
• £1,368,145 of unclaimed prizes (3.68% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 24th June 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #315 (Wednesday 30th December 1998) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #313 (Wednesday 23rd December 1998) [4 jackpot winners]

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