UK National Lottery #217

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 21st January 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,094,212           2    £4,188,424      31.0%
5+bonus       £257,749           5    £1,288,745       9.5%
5 match         £1,320         610      £805,200       6.0%
4 match            £56      31,525    £1,765,400      13.1%
3 match            £10     545,672    £5,456,720      40.4%
Totals                     577,814   £13,504,489     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.2% rise   £30,025,300   

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       12        28       2       30      31       90       31 
2nd       05        36       7       43       8       38        8 
3rd       24        21       6       27      16       69       16 
4th       35        28       0       28       5     Never       5 
5th       38        33       3       36       1        2        1 
6th       36        28       5       33       4       78        4 
Bonus     34        25       8       33       9       25        9 
Total    184       199      31      230      74      519       74
Avg.      26.3      28.4     4.4     32.9    10.6     74.1     10.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.37. One in every 52.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.92% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,530,743.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
• The number 5 is now only 2 appearances behind the number 44 in both the main number (36 times) and winning number (43 times) frequency tables.
• The number 34 has now appeared 8 times as a bonus number, closing the gap to the table leaders to one.
• The number 12 appeared for the first time for 31 draws, handing over the mantle of longest absentee to the number 15 (not appeared as a main or winning number for 29 draws).
• I matched one number on my first ticket and nothing on my second - another loss just as my lottery subscription renewal form comes through the post !
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 20th July 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #218 (Saturday 24th January 1998) [8 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #216 (Saturday 17th January 1998) [4 jackpot winners]

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