UK National Lottery #224 (Single Rollover Draw)

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 14th February 1998:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 32nd single rollover draw and the 35th rollover in total, included £4,818,061 (37.0%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £8,192,117 (63.0%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,168,363           6   £13,010,178      37.1%
5+bonus        £63,016          40    £2,520,640       7.2%
5 match           £979       1,608    £1,574,232       4.5%
4 match            £39      86,856    £3,387,384       9.6%
3 match            £10   1,459,121   £14,591,210      41.6%
Totals                   1,547,631   £35,083,644     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)     18.8% rise   £19,977,999     20.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      5.4% rise   £77,554,836     79.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)     12.3% rise   £67,433,962     69.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.7% fall   £30,098,873     30.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      7.9% rise   £97,532,835     86.8% of combined sales
Instants sales           1.9% rise   £14,803,348     13.2% of combined sales
Combined sales           7.1% rise  £112,336,183   
Good causes             11.8% rise   £33,039,026.29  29.4% 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       17        32       4       36       3       23        3 
2nd       13        21       4       25       3       83        3 
3rd       14        36       6       42       6        5        5 
4th       28        34       7       41       9       22        9 
5th       08        28       3       31      13       10       10 
6th       20        24      10       34       9        3        3 
Bonus     10        23       4       27      10        4        4 
Total    110       198      38      236      53      150       37
Avg.      15.7      28.3     5.4     33.7     7.6     21.4      5.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £22.67. One in every 43.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.30% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,990,373.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £30.
• The range (20) of the seven winning numbers was the outright lowest ever.
• Yes, the number 14 did indeed come up on this first ever St. Valentine's Day draw.
• I matched two numbers on my first ticket, one number on my second and third tickets and none on my fourth ticket to continue my 5-month losing run.
• £1,237,044 of unclaimed prizes (2.82% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 13th August 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #225 (Wednesday 18th February 1998) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #223 (Wednesday 11th February 1998) [No jackpot winners]

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