UK National Lottery #297

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 28th October 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,276,255           3    £3,828,765      30.1%
5+bonus       £196,346           6    £1,178,076       9.2%
5 match         £1,366         539      £736,274       5.8%
4 match            £55      29,179    £1,604,845      12.6%
3 match            £10     539,489    £5,394,890      42.3%
Totals                     569,216   £12,742,850     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.4% fall   £28,350,889   

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       31        46       8       54       8       39        8 
2nd       07        32       5       37      16       90       16 
3rd       49        30       5       35      22        1        1 
4th       02        44       5       49       4       26        4 
5th       01        40       5       45       4       52        4 
6th       17        38       5       43      23       66       23 
Bonus     41        36       8       44       1        6        1 
Total    148       266      41      307      78      280       57
Avg.      21.1      38.0     5.9     43.9    11.1     40.0      8.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £22.39. One in every 49.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.01% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,993,346.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
• The number 41 has now appeared in 5 consecutive draws as a winning number, which is only one less than the number 44's all-time record 6-in-a-row sequence.
• The main number pair 01, 31 now has an impressive lead of three at the top of the main number pairs frequency table after its 14th such appearance. It's moved to outright top of the winning number pairs frequency table after being drawn as such for the 16th time.
• Arthur and ball set 2 has become the first machine and ball set combination to have been used together 30 times since the lottery began.
• I matched nothing on either of my two tickets, which ironically matched the deadly silence (no studio audience !) of the current Amazing Luck Wednesday lottery TV show.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 26th April 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #298 (Saturday 31st October 1998) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #296 (Saturday 24th October 1998) [4 jackpot winners]

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