UK National Lottery #240

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.00pm BST on Saturday 11th April 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £8,235,083           1    £8,235,083      31.3%
5+bonus       £281,541           9    £2,533,869       9.6%
5 match         £1,919         825    £1,583,175       6.0%
4 match            £65      53,055    £3,448,575      13.1%
3 match            £10   1,052,416   £10,524,160      40.0%
Totals                   1,106,306   £26,324,862     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)     16.3% fall   £15,673,107     17.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      4.9% fall   £72,005,472     82.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)     10.1% fall   £58,579,687     66.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.6% fall   £29,098,892     33.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      7.1% fall   £87,678,579     85.7% of combined sales
Instants sales           1.7% rise   £14,669,664     14.3% of combined sales
Combined sales           6.0% fall  £102,348,243   
Good causes              9.8% fall   £28,651,081.54  28.0% 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       44        40       7       47      10       27       10 
2nd       07        25       5       30      12       33       12 
3rd       43        37       5       42       1       36        1 
4th       31        37       7       44       5        3        3 
5th       35        30       0       30      19     Never      19 
6th       10        26       5       31       5       14        5 
Bonus     37        23       5       28       1       10        1 
Total    207       218      34      252      53      363       51
Avg.      29.6      31.1     4.9     36.0     7.6     51.9      7.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.80. One in every 53.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.89% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,275,513.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £60.
• The number 44 is now the outright leader of both the main (40 appearances) and winning (47 appearances) number frequency tables.
• This was only the second time that two consecutive draws had the same number of 5+bonus and jackpot winners.
• There have now been over 250 million prizes awarded since the lottery began.
• Less than 150,000 ticket combinations have now failed to win a prize in any of the 240 lotteries to date.
• This was a record 22nd consecutive Saturday draw where there was at least one jackpot winner.
• I matched one number on each of my two tickets to continue my losing sequence.
• A 5+bonus prize of £281,541 won by a ticket bought in the Sheffield area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
• £1,375,448 of unclaimed prizes (3.49% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 8th October 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #241 (Wednesday 15th April 1998) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #239 (Wednesday 8th April 1998) [1 jackpot winner]

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