UK National Lottery #299

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 4th November 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,153,555           1    £3,153,555      24.9%
5+bonus        £35,937          27      £970,299       7.7%
5 match           £678         894      £606,132       4.8%
4 match            £31      42,073    £1,304,263      10.3%
3 match            £10     662,967    £6,629,670      52.3%
Totals                     705,962   £12,663,919     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.5% fall   £28,209,331   

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       09        42      11       53       1        5        1 
2nd       11        39       4       43       4      127        4 
3rd       02        45       5       50       2       28        2 
4th       42        41       5       46       4       44        4 
5th       23        39       4       43       3      138        3 
6th       24        29       8       37       8        6        6 
Bonus     27        44       5       49      13       10       10 
Total    138       279      42      321      35      358       30
Avg.      19.7      39.9     6.0     45.9     5.0     51.1      4.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 6 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.94. One in every 40.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.50% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,207,449.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £60.
• The number 4 has now failed to appear for 49 consecutive draws as either a main or winning number, making it the joint third longest main number absentee and the joint second longest winning number absentee.
• This draw had the third lowest 5+bonus, 5-match and 4-match prize pools of all time.
• There are now two ticket combinations that have won 21 prizes in the 299 lotteries to date.
• I matched one number on my first ticket and nothing on my second, failing to create any fireworks in my bank account...
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 3rd May 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #300 (Saturday 7th November 1998) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #298 (Saturday 31st October 1998) [3 jackpot winners]

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