UK National Lottery #258

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.50pm BST on Saturday 13th June 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,171,468           6    £7,028,808      27.7%
5+bonus        £42,406          51    £2,162,706       8.5%
5 match         £1,009       1,339    £1,351,051       5.3%
4 match            £42      69,446    £2,916,732      11.5%
3 match            £10   1,190,764   £11,907,640      47.0%
Totals                   1,261,606   £25,366,937     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      3.2% fall   £14,998,128     17.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      1.4% fall   £70,028,429     82.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.5% fall   £56,499,075     66.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      2.3% fall   £28,527,482     33.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.8% fall   £85,026,557     85.9% of combined sales
Instants sales           5.1% rise   £13,912,532     14.1% of combined sales
Combined sales           0.8% fall   £98,939,089   
Good causes              1.5% fall   £28,017,403.06  28.3% 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       07        28       5       33      11       51       11 
2nd       02        36       4       40       1       17        1 
3rd       10        29       6       35       8        7        7 
4th       27        35       2       37      11      100       11 
5th       45        38       7       45      23       87       23 
6th       15        25       4       29       2       71        2 
Bonus     31        40       8       48       2       21        2 
Total    137       231      36      267      58      354       57
Avg.      19.6      33.0     5.1     38.1     8.3     50.6      8.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.11. One in every 44.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.23% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,941,076.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.
• The number 31 has joined the number 44 at the top of the winning number frequency table courtesy of its 48th such appearance.
• Ticket sales were the worst for a Saturday draw since way back in December 1994 (only the second month of the lottery !). The only Sunday draw to date had worse ticket sales, but that was because it wasn't televised.
• Less than 100,000 ticket combinations have failed to win a prize in any of the 258 lotteries to date.
• I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second ticket to continue my record-breaking losing run.
• £1,107,510 of unclaimed prizes (2.90% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 10th December 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #259 (Wednesday 17th June 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #257 (Wednesday 10th June 1998) [1 jackpot winner]

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