UK National Lottery #289

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm BST on Wednesday 30th September 1998:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,626,121	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£69,733	16	£1,115,728	11.9%
5 match	£1,051	663	£696,813	7.4%
4 match	£43	35,306	£1,518,158	16.1%
3 match	£10	607,940	£6,079,400	64.6%
Totals	643,925		£9,410,099	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		21.8% fall	£29,006,025

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	10	34	6	40	7	38	7
2nd	31	45	8	53	13	31	13
3rd	12	38	3	41	9	60	9
4th	28	47	7	54	2	87	2
5th	14	45	10	55	2	22	2
6th	38	46	3	49	11	74	11
Bonus	27	44	4	48	3	2	2
Total	160	299	41	340	47	314	46
Avg.	22.9	42.7	5.9	48.6	6.7	44.9	6.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £14.61. One in every 45.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.22% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,581,491.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 10 wins totalling £100. This was only the third time that a jackpot ticket had won 10 prizes in prior draws.

The 47th appearance of the main number 28 has put it joint top of that frequency table (level with the number 44).

Similarly, the 55th appearance of the winning number 14 has put it level with the number 25 at the top of that frequency table.

This draw had the second lowest average prize of all time.

I matched one number on each of my two tickets to inevitably extend my current losing run.

Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 29th March 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #290 (Saturday 3rd October 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #288 (Saturday 26th September 1998) [7 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #289

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm BST on Wednesday 30th 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