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The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 31st single rollover draw and the 34th rollover in total, included £4,742,341 (30.0%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £11,062,387 (70.0%).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jackpot | £3,951,182 | 4 | £15,804,728 | 45.1% |
| 5+bonus | £309,437 | 11 | £3,403,807 | 9.7% |
| 5 match | £3,087 | 689 | £2,126,943 | 6.0% |
| 4 match | £110 | 42,317 | £4,654,870 | 13.3% |
| 3 match | £10 | 907,380 | £9,073,800 | 25.9% |
| Totals | 950,401 | £35,064,148 | 100.0% | |
| Category | Change | Figure | Percentages | |
| Lucky Dip (S+W) | 21.1% rise | £19,914,051 | 20.4% of Sat+Wed sales | |
| Manual sales (S+W) | 5.8% rise | £77,486,235 | 79.6% of Sat+Wed sales | |
| Ticket sales (Sat) | 12.8% rise | £67,439,157 | 69.2% of Sat+Wed sales | |
| Ticket sales (Wed) | 0.2% rise | £29,961,129 | 30.8% of Sat+Wed sales | |
| Ticket sales (S+W) | 8.6% rise | £97,400,286 | 86.7% of combined sales | |
| Instants sales | 15.2% rise | £14,945,289 | 13.3% of combined sales | |
| Combined sales | 9.5% rise | £112,345,575 | ||
| Good causes | 5.0% rise | £31,454,155.87 | 28.0% 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 | 38 | 32 | 3 | 35 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| 2nd | 14 | 34 | 5 | 39 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
| 3rd | 48 | 29 | 3 | 32 | 11 | 109 | 11 |
| 4th | 33 | 25 | 5 | 30 | 1 | 20 | 1 |
| 5th | 46 | 23 | 7 | 30 | 6 | 10 | 6 |
| 6th | 31 | 31 | 6 | 37 | 1 | 23 | 1 |
| Bonus | 26 | 24 | 2 | 26 | 4 | 175 | 4 |
| Total | 236 | 198 | 31 | 229 | 29 | 346 | 27 |
| Avg. | 33.7 | 28.3 | 4.4 | 32.7 | 4.1 | 49.4 | 3.9 |
Comments:
Ticket sales 67,439,157 Prize pool 30,347,620.60 (45% of sales rounded down to nearest 10p) Minus 3-match pool -9,073,800 Pools fund 21,273,820.60 Jackpot prize pool 11,062,386.712 (52% of pools fund) Rollover +4,742,341 Jackpot prize pool 15,804,727.712 (including rollover amount) Divide by winners (4) 3,951,181.928 Round down 3,951,181Even if you skip rounding down to the nearest 10p (the Prize pool line would end in .65 instead of .60), it still doesn't evaluate correctly. This is a clear rounding error at the final stage (0.928 has been rounded up instead being rounded down). Similar errors have also been exclusively spotted on these pages for draws #152 and #159 and subsequently officially admitted as mistakes on the part of Camelot.
Next Lottery: #217 (Wednesday 21st January 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #215 (Wednesday 14th January 1998) [No jackpot winners]
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