UK National Lottery #285

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm BST on Wednesday 16th September 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,045,222           2    £4,090,444      32.2%
5+bonus        £89,899          14    £1,258,586       9.9%
5 match         £1,628         483      £786,324       6.2%
4 match            £65      26,509    £1,723,085      13.6%
3 match            £10     484,012    £4,840,120      38.1%
Totals                     511,020   £12,698,559     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.3% rise   £28,236,359   

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       45        41       8       49       5        6        5 
2nd       18        29       1       30      15       24       15 
3rd       36        38       6       44      15       17       15 
4th       28        44       7       51       1       83        1 
5th       25        46       9       55       1        2        1 
6th       40        40       3       43      12      142       12 
Bonus     43        44       7       51       4       31        4 
Total    235       282      41      323      53      305       53
Avg.      33.6      40.3     5.9     46.1     7.6     43.6      7.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.85. One in every 55.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.81% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,743,079.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
• The number 25 is now the outright leader of the winning number frequency table after its 55th such appearance. It also closed the gap to one in the main number frequency table leader (the number 44) after its 46th such appearance.
• I matched one number on each of my two tickets, so there's no end in sight for my current losing streak.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 15th March 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #286 (Saturday 19th September 1998) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #284 (Saturday 12th September 1998) [1 jackpot winner]

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