UK National Lottery #273

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 5th August 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,550,122           1    £4,550,122      35.6%
5+bonus       £350,009           4    £1,400,036      11.0%
5 match         £3,091         283      £874,753       6.8%
4 match            £99      19,366    £1,917,234      15.0%
3 match            £10     402,973    £4,029,730      31.6%
Totals                     422,627   £12,771,875     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             1.7% fall   £28,399,925   

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       38        44       3       47       2       58        2 
2nd       42        37       5       42       5       18        5 
3rd       35        35       1       36       6       11        6 
4th       40        39       3       42      10      130       10 
5th       47        35      11       46       4       25        4 
6th       13        28       5       33       8       46        8 
Bonus     34        29       9       38       4       56        4 
Total    249       247      37      284      39      344       39
Avg.      35.6      35.3     5.3     40.6     5.6     49.1      5.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 3 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.22. One in every 67.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.49% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,428,022.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £50.
• The main number 38 is now joint top with the number 44 in the frequency table after its 44th appearance.
• This draw had the joint lowest number of 5+bonus winners ever.
• I matched two numbers on my first ticket and one number on my second, so the high numbers didn't do me any favours.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 1st February 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #274 (Saturday 8th August 1998) [6 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #272 (Saturday 1st August 1998) [1 jackpot winner]

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