UK National Lottery #309

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 9th December 1998:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,344,445	2	£4,688,890	36.6%
5+bonus	£240,455	6	£1,442,730	11.2%
5 match	£2,504	360	£901,440	7.0%
4 match	£109	18,195	£1,983,255	15.5%
3 match	£10	381,415	£3,814,150	29.7%
Totals	399,978		£12,830,465	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		1.6% fall	£28,513,885

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	49	34	5	39	2	13	2
2nd	01	41	5	46	12	64	12
3rd	40	43	3	46	21	166	21
4th	45	45	8	53	3	30	3
5th	07	37	5	42	1	102	1
6th	39	29	3	32	4	6	4
Bonus	38	48	5	53	5	17	5
Total	219	277	34	311	48	398	48
Avg.	31.3	39.6	4.9	44.4	6.9	56.9	6.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £32.08. One in every 71.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.40% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,977,401.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.

Yellow has become the first colour to have appeared 400 times as a main ball.

The 29th appearance of the main number 39 has left only the numbers 19 and 20 at the basement of the main number frequency table ith one less appearance. It also left the number 19 on its own at the bottom of the winning number frequency table with 31 appearances.

I matched nothing on my first ticket and only one number on my second ticket, so I wasn't one of the lucky winners of one of tonight's fairly large Wednesday individual prizes (high numbers meant a low number of winners).

A 5+bonus prize of £240,455 won by a ticket bought in the East London area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.

Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 7th June 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #310 (Saturday 12th December 1998) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #308 (Saturday 5th December 1998) [2 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #309

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 9th December 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