UK National Lottery #252 (Single Rollover Draw) (Super Draw #29)

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.02pm BST on Saturday 23rd May 1998:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 36th single rollover draw and the 39th rollover in total, included £4,464,612 (22.3%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £15,535,388 (77.7%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot    £10,000,000           2   £20,000,000      49.4%
5+bonus        £82,873          40    £3,314,920       8.2%
5 match         £2,029       1,021    £2,071,609       5.1%
4 match            £79      57,041    £4,506,239      11.1%
3 match            £10   1,058,529   £10,585,290      26.2%
Totals                   1,116,633   £40,478,058     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)     22.1% rise   £20,705,044     21.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      6.8% rise   £77,712,821     79.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)     13.8% rise   £69,563,480     70.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.8% rise   £28,854,385     29.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      9.7% rise   £98,417,865     88.6% of combined sales
Instants sales           1.3% rise   £12,700,019     11.4% of combined sales
Combined sales           8.6% rise  £111,117,884   
Good causes              5.3% rise   £30,575,818.53  27.5% 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       24        26       7       33       6       30        6 
2nd       20        25      11       36      28       14       14 
3rd       47        32      11       43      13        4        4 
4th       08        29       5       34      28       16       16 
5th       43        39       5       44       8       48        8 
6th       35        33       0       33       1     Never       1 
Bonus     32        29       3       32      27       53       27 
Total    209       213      42      255     111      417       76
Avg.      29.9      30.4     6.0     36.4    15.9     59.6     10.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £36.25. One in every 62.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.61% of players).
• This was the 29th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £20,000,000.
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £3,348,446.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 8 wins totalling £80.
• The appearance of the main number 8 has left the number 32 as the outright longest main number absentee (not appeared for 27 draws).
• There are only 5 winning number pairs (out of a possible 1,176) that have failed to appear in any of the lotteries to date.
• This was a record 28th consecutive Saturday draw where there was at least one jackpot winner.
• More than £100 million has now been used to top-up the 29 Super Draws to date.
• A 5+bonus prize of £82,873 won by a ticket bought in the Sevenoaks area remains unclaimed at the moment.
• I matched nothing on my first ticket, two numbers on my second ticket and one number on each of my third and fourth tickets, which meant yet another Super Draw passed by for me without a win.
• £1,434,705 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 19th November 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #253 (Wednesday 27th May 1998) [6 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #251 (Wednesday 20th May 1998) [No jackpot winners]

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