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UK National Lottery #315
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 30th December 1998:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £1,443,163 | 3 | £4,329,489 | 31.9% |
| 5+bonus | £121,104 | 11 | £1,332,144 | 9.8% |
| 5 match | £1,570 | 530 | £832,100 | 6.1% |
| 4 match | £66 | 27,663 | £1,825,758 | 13.4% |
| 3 match | £10 | 527,851 | £5,278,510 | 38.8% |
| Totals | 556,058 | £13,598,001 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure |
| Ticket sales | 0.5% rise | £30,232,121 |
The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 5 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.45.
One in every 54.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.84% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,814,681.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
- The first ever appearance of the winning number pair
13, 49 means that there is now only one such pair,
10, 26, that has failed to
appear
in any of the 315 lotteries to date.
- With the main number 34 appearing for the first time in
29 draws, the longest absentee mantle now belongs to the main number
33, which last
appeared 24 draws ago.
- With the number 33 cropping up as a bonus number (first
time as a winning number in 24 draws), this means that the winning number
that's failed to appear the longest at the moment is the number
21 (last seen 23 draws ago).
- This draw was the second Wednesday draw in a row to benefit from the
"Christmas ticket sales effect", which boosted
sales to their highest level for a normal Wednesday draw in over
10 months.
- By only matching one number on my first ticket and nothing on my second,
I ended 1998 with only two £10 wins in the last 12 months.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 28th June 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #316 (Saturday 2nd January 1999) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #314 (Saturday 26th December 1998) [1 jackpot winner]
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