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UK National Lottery #248
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Winning numbers drawn at 7.53pm BST on Saturday 9th May 1998:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £4,242,902 2 £8,485,804 33.1%
5+bonus £100,423 26 £2,610,998 10.2%
5 match £1,938 842 £1,631,796 6.3%
4 match £74 48,446 £3,585,004 14.0%
3 match £10 933,759 £9,337,590 36.4%
Totals 983,075 £25,651,192 100.0%
Category Change Figure Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W) 11.9% fall £15,098,370 17.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W) 3.8% fall £71,073,075 82.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat) 1.8% fall £57,014,328 66.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed) 11.5% fall £29,157,117 33.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W) 5.3% fall £86,171,445 86.4% of combined sales
Instants sales 9.6% fall £13,590,800 13.6% of combined sales
Combined sales 5.9% fall £99,762,245
Good causes 6.2% fall £28,468,733.55 28.5% 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 35 31 0 31 8 Never 8
2nd 40 36 3 39 3 105 3
3rd 25 40 7 47 13 63 13
4th 02 32 4 36 2 7 2
5th 26 28 3 31 7 25 7
6th 09 34 8 42 5 1 1
Bonus 47 31 11 42 9 2 2
Total 184 232 36 268 47 451 36
Avg. 26.3 33.1 5.1 38.3 6.7 64.4 5.1
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £26.09.
One in every 58.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.72% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,716,581.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £20.
- The number 25 is now joint top of the
main (40th appearance) and
winning (47th appearance)
number frequency tables (tying with the number 44).
- The number 47 has now appeared as a bonus number
for the 11th time, which makes it joint top of that frequency
table with the
number 20.
- Despite there being 30 possible machine and ball set
combinations,
Arthur and ball set 2 have now been used 25 times, which is more than
1 in every 10 draws.
- Ticket sales were the worst for a
Saturday draw for 8 months.
- Scratchcard sales were so poor this week (5th lowest weekly sales ever)
that they dragged the combined (lottery+scratchcard) weekly sales below
£100 million for the first time in
8 months.
- I didn't match anything on my two tickets (if it had been
a rollover or Super Draw, I would have won £10 on my fourth ticket).
- £1,134,832 of unclaimed prizes (2.93% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 5th November 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #249 (Wednesday 13th May 1998) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #247 (Wednesday 6th May 1998) [1 jackpot winner]
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