UK National Lottery #222

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 7th February 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,579,211           5    £7,896,055      29.2%
5+bonus       £161,970          15    £2,429,550       9.0%
5 match         £1,265       1,200    £1,518,000       5.6%
4 match            £50      66,251    £3,312,550      12.3%
3 match            £10   1,184,843   £11,848,430      43.9%
Totals                   1,252,314   £27,004,585     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      0.4% rise   £16,810,750     18.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.6% fall   £73,567,840     81.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.7% fall   £60,073,671     66.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.2% rise   £30,304,919     33.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.4% fall   £90,378,590     86.1% of combined sales
Instants sales           0.6% rise   £14,530,200     13.9% of combined sales
Combined sales           0.3% fall  £104,908,790   
Good causes              0.1% fall   £29,554,122.82  28.2% 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       31        33       6       39       3       29        3 
2nd       25        35       7       42       9       37        9 
3rd       27        31       2       33       7       64        7 
4th       09        30       5       35      18       12       12 
5th       42        28       3       31       1       38        1 
6th       45        34       7       41       1       51        1 
Bonus     24        22       7       29       4       74        4 
Total    203       213      37      250      43      305       37
Avg.      29.0      30.4     5.3     35.7     6.1     43.6      5.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.56. One in every 48.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.08% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,137,621.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
• Yellow has become the first colour to appear 300 times as a main ball.
• I matched one number on each of my two tickets to continue my losing streak stretching back to last September.
• £1,170,003 of unclaimed prizes (2.88% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 6th August 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #223 (Wednesday 11th February 1998) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #221 (Wednesday 4th February 1998) [4 jackpot winners]

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