UK National Lottery #212

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 3rd January 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,074,175           3    £9,222,525      34.6%
5+bonus       £177,356          16    £2,837,696      10.6%
5 match         £2,387         743    £1,773,541       6.7%
4 match            £86      45,206    £3,887,716      14.6%
3 match            £10     892,548    £8,925,480      33.5%
Totals                     938,516   £26,646,958     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      0.8% fall   £17,835,656     19.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.8% fall   £75,924,835     81.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.6% rise   £59,246,901     63.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      3.2% fall   £34,513,590     36.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.8% fall   £93,760,491     87.4% of combined sales
Instants sales          11.9% rise   £13,545,000     12.6% of combined sales
Combined sales           0.6% rise  £107,305,491   
Good causes             11.9% rise   £31,302,584.12  29.2% 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       28        32       7       39       2       10        2 
2nd       13        19       4       23       1       71        1 
3rd       35        27       0       27       5     Never       5 
4th       26        24       1       25       4      171        4 
5th       01        24       3       27       4      116        4 
6th       45        32       7       39      12       41       12 
Bonus     30        28       7       35       6        1        1 
Total    178       186      29      215      34      622       29
Avg.      25.4      26.6     4.1     30.7     4.9     88.9      4.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £28.39. One in every 63.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.58% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,706,008.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £60.
• The main number pair 35, 45 has now appeared 8 times since the lottery began, joining five other such pairs in achieving this.
• There are now less than 250,000 ticket combinations that have failed to win a prize in any of the 212 draws to date.
• I matched two numbers on my first ticket and one on my second in a yet another predictable double loss.
• £1,226,116 of unclaimed prizes (2.91% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 2nd July 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #213 (Wednesday 7th January 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #211 (Wednesday 31st December 1997) [6 jackpot winners]

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