UK National Lottery #230

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.28pm GMT on Saturday 7th March 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,020,964           2    £8,041,928      30.0%
5+bonus       £190,341          13    £2,474,433       9.3%
5 match         £1,494       1,035    £1,546,290       5.8%
4 match            £54      62,099    £3,353,346      12.5%
3 match            £10   1,135,821   £11,358,210      42.4%
Totals                   1,198,970   £26,774,207     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      1.8% fall   £16,233,184     18.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.8% fall   £73,503,381     81.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.1% fall   £59,607,688     66.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.6% fall   £30,128,877     33.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.0% fall   £89,736,565     83.6% of combined sales
Instants sales           8.1% rise   £17,560,221     16.4% of combined sales
Combined sales           0.4% rise  £107,296,786   
Good causes              0.4% rise   £30,289,223.39  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       14        37       6       43       6       11        6 
2nd       44        39       7       46      38       17       17 
3rd       11        28       4       32       7       58        7 
4th       39        19       1       20      27      117       27 
5th       04        31       3       34      11       49       11 
6th       43        34       5       39      23       26       23 
Bonus     37        19       4       23       4       27        4 
Total    192       207      30      237     116      305       95
Avg.      27.4      29.6     4.3     33.9    16.6     43.6     13.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £22.33. One in every 49.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.01% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,850,674.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £131.
• The number 44 has stretched its lead to two in both the main and winning number frequency tables by appearing for the 39th (main) and 46th (winning) times.
• The number 39 is now off the bottom of the main number frequency table, leaving the basement position to the number 15 (which has only appeared 18 times to date). The number 39 is still the rarest winning number, although it's now only two appearances behind the number 15.
• With the numbers 39 and 44 eventually appearing, the longest main and winning number absentee is now the number 19, which hasn't appeared for 26 draws now.
• One ticket combination has now managed to win 19 prizes in the 230 lotteries to date.
• I matched one number on my first ticket and two numbers on my second ticket to continue my 6-month long losing streak.
• £1,041,949 of unclaimed prizes (2.58% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 3rd September 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #231 (Wednesday 11th March 1998) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #229 (Wednesday 4th March 1998) [1 jackpot winner]

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