UK National Lottery #228

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 28th February 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,149,673           7    £8,047,711      29.7%
5+bonus        £56,277          44    £2,476,188       9.2%
5 match         £1,128       1,371    £1,546,488       5.7%
4 match            £48      69,954    £3,357,792      12.4%
3 match            £10   1,165,696   £11,656,960      43.0%
Totals                   1,237,072   £27,085,139     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      0.2% fall   £16,533,929     18.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.3% fall   £74,064,124     81.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.5% fall   £60,296,290     66.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.1% rise   £30,301,763     33.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.3% fall   £90,598,053     84.8% of combined sales
Instants sales           7.1% rise   £16,241,574     15.2% of combined sales
Combined sales           0.8% rise  £106,839,627   
Good causes              1.1% rise   £30,169,895.46  28.2% 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       01        27       3       30       3      132        3 
2nd       18        23       0       23      17     Never      17 
3rd       15        18       4       22       9       41        9 
4th       30        30       7       37       8       16        8 
5th       07        24       5       29      15       21       15 
6th       31        34       6       40       6       35        6 
Bonus     09        31       6       37       1       18        1 
Total    111       187      31      218      59      491       59
Avg.      15.9      26.7     4.4     31.1     8.4     70.1      8.4

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.89. One in every 48.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.05% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,757,947.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 3 wins totalling £92.
• The number 15 is now joint bottom of the main number frequency table after its 18th appearance (shares the basement with the number 39).
• I matched nothing on either of my two tickets, so I still haven't won on my fourth annual subscription yet.
• A 5+bonus prize of £56,277 won by a ticket bought in the Hounslow area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
• £1,218,879 of unclaimed prizes (2.99% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 27th August 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #229 (Wednesday 4th March 1998) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #227 (Wednesday 25th February 1998) [4 jackpot winners]

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