UK National Lottery #284 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 12th September 1998:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 39th single rollover draw and the 42nd rollover in total, included £3,690,059 (33.4%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £7,347,349 (66.6%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£11,037,408	1	£11,037,408	36.1%
5+bonus	£173,901	13	£2,260,713	7.4%
5 match	£1,160	1,218	£1,412,880	4.6%
4 match	£42	72,292	£3,036,264	9.9%
3 match	£10	1,283,898	£12,838,980	42.0%
Totals	1,357,422		£30,586,245	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		0.1% fall	£14,799,273	16.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		8.4% rise	£73,287,054	83.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		9.5% rise	£59,929,997	68.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.6% rise	£28,156,330	32.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		6.9% rise	£88,086,327	85.7% of combined sales
Instants sales		13.5% rise	£14,671,290	14.3% of combined sales
Combined sales		7.8% rise	£102,757,617
Good causes		5.1% rise	£28,628,278.55	27.9% 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	15	29	4	33	8	97	8
2nd	33	35	6	41	3	31	3
3rd	03	32	6	38	5	121	5
4th	23	37	4	41	9	123	9
5th	28	43	7	50	1	82	1
6th	25	45	9	54	9	1	1
Bonus	29	33	8	41	13	21	13
Total	156	254	44	298	48	476	40
Avg.	22.3	36.3	6.3	42.6	6.9	68.0	5.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £22.53. One in every 44.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.27% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,456,803.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £86.

The number 25 has joined the number 44 at the top of the winning number frequency table by appearing as a winning number for the 54th time.

One ticket combination has become the first to win 21 prizes in the 284 lotteries to date.

This was only the second time that a Saturday rollover draw had ticket sales under the £60m mark (the first time this happened, a year ago, the draw wasn't televised and was postponed a day out of respect for the death of Princess Diana !).

I matched nothing on my second and fourth tickets and only one number on each of my first and third tickets, so the fact that the TV show's computer balls failed to display live for the first time ever didn't help.

A 5+bonus prize of £173,901 won by a ticket bought in the Workington, Cumbria area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.

£1,477,909 of unclaimed prizes (3.74% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 11th March 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #285 (Wednesday 16th September 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #283 (Wednesday 9th September 1998) [No jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #284 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 12th September 1998:

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Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.54am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020