UK National Lottery #270

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 25th July 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,016,209           4    £8,064,836      31.9%
5+bonus       £145,969          17    £2,481,473       9.8%
5 match         £1,985         781    £1,550,285       6.1%
4 match            £68      50,052    £3,403,536      13.5%
3 match            £10     976,658    £9,766,580      38.7%
Totals                   1,027,512   £25,266,710     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)     13.1% fall   £15,217,402     17.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      4.3% fall   £69,898,593     82.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      8.6% fall   £56,168,630     66.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.6% fall   £28,947,365     34.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      6.0% fall   £85,115,995     86.0% of combined sales
Instants sales           5.7% fall   £13,861,539     14.0% of combined sales
Combined sales           6.0% fall   £98,977,534   
Good causes              6.7% fall   £28,117,462.24  28.4% 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       36        37       6       43       5        2        2 
2nd       43        42       6       48       4       16        4 
3rd       18        28       1       29       7        9        7 
4th       44        44       7       51       2       57        2 
5th       25        43       7       50       6       85        6 
6th       38        42       3       45       1       55        1 
Bonus     19        25       3       28       9      230        9 
Total    223       261      33      294      34      454       31
Avg.      31.9      37.3     4.7     42.0     4.9     64.9      4.4

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.59. One in every 54.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.83% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,687,473.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £90.
• The two most frequent main numbers, 25 (drawn 43 times) and 44 (drawn 44 times), both appeared in this draw.
• The number 44 is now only one behind the number 14 in the winning number frequency table after appearing as such for the 51st time. The number 39 is now two adrift at the bottom of the same table after the 28th appearance of the winning number 19.
• I matched one number on each of my two tickets as I predictably begin to stretch my losing streak again.
• £1,011,049 of unclaimed prizes (2.64% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 21st January 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #271 (Wednesday 29th July 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #269 (Wednesday 22nd July 1998) [1 jackpot winner]

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