UK National Lottery #308

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm GMT on Saturday 5th December 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,627,226           2    £7,254,452      28.7%
5+bonus       £106,292          21    £2,232,132       8.8%
5 match         £1,462         954    £1,394,748       5.5%
4 match            £51      59,346    £3,026,646      12.0%
3 match            £10   1,135,679   £11,356,790      45.0%
Totals                   1,196,002   £25,264,768     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)     19.3% fall   £16,281,664     19.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      2.5% fall   £68,925,709     80.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      9.7% fall   £56,239,245     66.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.4% rise   £28,968,128     34.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      6.2% fall   £85,207,373     86.1% of combined sales
Instants sales          11.7% rise   £13,775,469     13.9% of combined sales
Combined sales           4.1% fall   £98,982,842   
Good causes              0.4% fall   £28,192,462.49  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       27        45       5       50      22        9        9 
2nd       35        39       2       41       5       10        5 
3rd       23        41       4       45       6      147        6 
4th       26        38       4       42       2       13        2 
5th       04        36       3       39       2      127        2 
6th       07        36       5       41       1      101        1 
Bonus     28        48       8       56       1      106        1 
Total    150       283      31      314      39      513       26
Avg.      21.4      40.4     4.4     44.9     5.6     73.3      3.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 6 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.12. One in every 47.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.13% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,416,583.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £70.
• All ball colours have now appeared as winning numbers at least 400 times.
• £1,124,125 of unclaimed prizes (2.94% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 3rd June 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #309 (Wednesday 9th December 1998) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #307 (Wednesday 2nd December 1998) [4 jackpot winners]

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