UK National Lottery #261

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm BST on Wednesday 24th June 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,885,457           2    £3,770,914      30.0%
5+bonus       £145,035           8    £1,160,280       9.2%
5 match         £1,433         506      £725,098       5.8%
4 match            £52      30,385    £1,580,020      12.5%
3 match            £10     534,841    £5,348,410      42.5%
Totals                     565,742   £12,584,722     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             1.5% fall   £28,000,379   

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       19        25       2       27      14      221       14 
2nd       25        41       7       48      13       76       13 
3rd       14        41       7       48       1       22        1 
4th       02        38       4       42       2       20        2 
5th       33        31       6       37       4        8        4 
6th       26        31       3       34       4       38        4 
Bonus     18        26       1       27       6     Never       6 
Total    137       233      30      263      44      646       44
Avg.      19.6      33.3     4.3     37.6     6.3     92.3      6.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £22.24. One in every 49.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.02% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,887,905.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £70.
• The number 18 finally appeared as a bonus ball, leaving the number 35 as the only number yet to be drawn as a bonus ball.
• There are now four numbers at the top of the main number frequency table with 41 appearances each: 14, 25, 31 and 44.
• The 27th appearance of the winning numbers 18 and 19 has left the number 39 four adrift at the bottom of the frequency table.
• I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second ticket to lose just like England did against Romania.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 21st December 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #262 (Saturday 27th June 1998) [6 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #260 (Saturday 20th June 1998) [7 jackpot winners]

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