UK National Lottery #282

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 5th September 1998:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,425,455	5	£7,127,275	29.0%
5+bonus	£115,421	19	£2,192,999	8.9%
5 match	£1,603	855	£1,370,565	5.6%
4 match	£52	57,053	£2,966,756	12.1%
3 match	£10	1,091,408	£10,914,080	44.4%
Totals	1,149,340		£24,571,675	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		1.4% fall	£14,806,835	18.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		0.7% fall	£67,616,444	82.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.4% fall	£54,711,952	66.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.7% fall	£27,711,327	33.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.9% fall	£82,423,279	86.4% of combined sales
Instants sales		3.4% fall	£12,927,725	13.6% of combined sales
Combined sales		1.2% fall	£95,351,004
Good causes		0.4% fall	£27,251,866.97	28.6% 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	27	42	2	44	1	124	1
2nd	47	37	12	49	8	6	6
3rd	42	39	5	44	2	27	2
4th	11	34	4	38	4	110	4
5th	10	33	6	39	2	31	2
6th	09	38	9	47	18	1	1
Bonus	08	30	6	36	29	46	29
Total	154	253	44	297	64	345	45
Avg.	22.0	36.1	6.3	42.4	9.1	49.3	6.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.38. One in every 47.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.10% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,380,255.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £140.

This draw had only the third ever winning number quad in the history of the lottery.

Ball set 2 has become the first ball set to be used 50 times to date.

The sum of all the winning balls in the 282 lotteries to date has now exceeded 50,000.

This draw had the lowest Saturday ticket sales for a year (and that draw last September wasn't even televised !).

I matched one number on both of my tickets for this draw, to add to the misery of England losing their first Euro2000 soccer qualification match against Sweden.

£1,019,845 of unclaimed prizes (2.76% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 4th March 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #283 (Wednesday 9th September 1998) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #281 (Wednesday 2nd September 1998) [16 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #282

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 5th September 1998:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.54am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020