UK National Lottery #312 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 19th December 1998:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 43rd single rollover draw and the 46th rollover in total, included £4,136,006 (34.9%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £7,725,239 (65.1%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,372,249	5	£11,861,245	36.5%
5+bonus	£91,422	26	£2,376,972	7.3%
5 match	£1,130	1,314	£1,484,820	4.6%
4 match	£41	78,355	£3,212,555	9.9%
3 match	£10	1,357,715	£13,577,150	41.7%
Totals	1,437,415		£32,512,742	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		23.0% rise	£19,534,591	21.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		5.6% rise	£72,029,743	78.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		13.6% rise	£63,185,293	69.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.5% fall	£28,379,041	31.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		8.8% rise	£91,564,334	88.5% of combined sales
Instants sales		4.0% fall	£11,872,729	11.5% of combined sales
Combined sales		7.2% rise	£103,437,063
Good causes		7.1% rise	£29,260,510.28	28.3% 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	10	35	6	41	23	61	23
2nd	09	44	12	56	8	1	1
3rd	18	33	1	34	14	51	14
4th	25	51	10	61	6	2	2
5th	48	39	4	43	17	87	17
6th	28	50	8	58	2	4	2
Bonus	34	31	10	41	26	39	26
Total	172	283	51	334	96	245	85
Avg.	24.6	40.4	7.3	47.7	13.7	35.0	12.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £22.62. One in every 44.0 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 £8,788,876.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 8 wins totalling £80.

The top two most frequent main numbers, 25 and 28, both appeared in this draw, nicely place one number in each of the 47-51 appearances slots.

The numbers 25 and 28 also moved away from the rest of the winning numbers pack with their 61st and 58th such appearances respectively.

There are now less than 40,000 ticket combinations (out of a possible 13,983,816) that have failed to win a prize in any of the 312 lotteries to date.

The appearance of the bonus number 34 broke its run of 25 consecutive draws without appearing as one of the seven drawn numbers. The new longest winning number absentee is now the number 33, which has failed to appear for 21 draws.

I matched one number on my first and third tickets, nothing on my second ticket and two numbers on my fourth ticket, so another rollover passes me by without a win.

£1,445,076 of unclaimed prizes (3.51% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 17th June 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #313 (Wednesday 23rd December 1998) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #311 (Wednesday 16th December 1998) [No jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #312 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 19th December 1998:

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