UK National Lottery #262

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.53pm BST on Saturday 27th June 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,024,299           6    £6,145,794      24.6%
5+bonus        £52,528          36    £1,891,008       7.6%
5 match           £679       1,739    £1,180,781       4.7%
4 match            £31      83,227    £2,580,037      10.3%
3 match            £10   1,318,180   £13,181,800      52.8%
Totals                   1,403,188   £24,979,420     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      1.3% fall   £14,799,273     17.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      0.4% fall   £68,758,093     82.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.0% fall   £55,556,987     66.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.5% fall   £28,000,379     33.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.5% fall   £83,557,366     86.8% of combined sales
Instants sales           9.9% fall   £12,663,434     13.2% of combined sales
Combined sales           1.9% fall   £96,220,800   
Good causes              1.4% fall   £27,463,332.08  28.5% 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       11        31       4       35      11       90       11 
2nd       43        40       6       46      10        8        8 
3rd       09        36       8       44       5       15        5 
4th       07        29       5       34       4       55        4 
5th       23        31       4       35       6      101        6 
6th       30        32       7       39      33       50       33 
Bonus     35        33       1       34      10     Never      10 
Total    158       232      35      267      79      581       77
Avg.      22.6      33.1     5.0     38.1    11.3     83.0     11.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.80. One in every 39.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.53% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,204,638.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £50.
• The first ever appearance of the number 35 as a bonus number now means that all numbers have been drawn at least once as a bonus number. It's also remarkable that the last two numbers not to appear as bonus numbers have appeared as such in consecutive draws.
• The first appearance of the winning number 30 for 33 draws has handed over the longest winning number absentee mantle to the number 37 (not been seen as a winning number for 19 draws).
• The 400th yellow winning ball has finally made its appearance, more than any other colour.
• The amount given to Good Causes dropped for a record fifth consecutive week.
• I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second ticket to inevitably continue my almost infinitely long losing streak.
• £724,824 of unclaimed prizes (1.93% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 24th December 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #263 (Wednesday 1st July 1998) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #261 (Wednesday 24th June 1998) [2 jackpot winners]

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