UK National Lottery #310

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm GMT on Saturday 12th December 1998:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £9,110,738           1    £9,110,738      36.5%
5+bonus       £200,236          14    £2,803,304      11.2%
5 match         £3,680         476    £1,751,680       7.0%
4 match           £113      33,907    £3,831,491      15.3%
3 match            £10     750,219    £7,502,190      30.0%
Totals                     784,617   £24,999,403     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Lucky Dip     (S+W)      2.4% fall   £15,886,113     18.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Manual sales  (S+W)      1.0% fall   £68,234,087     81.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.1% fall   £55,606,315     66.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.6% fall   £28,513,885     33.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.3% fall   £84,120,200     87.2% of combined sales
Instants sales          10.2% fall   £12,372,638     12.8% of combined sales
Combined sales           2.5% fall   £96,492,838   
Good causes              3.1% fall   £27,308,370.41  28.3% 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       46        32       9       41      18        4        4 
2nd       38        49       5       54       6        1        1 
3rd       28        49       8       57       3        2        2 
4th       41        37       8       45      14       13       13 
5th       26        39       4       43       2       15        2 
6th       39        30       3       33       1        7        1 
Bonus     25        50      10       60       4       27        4 
Total    243       286      47      333      48       69       27
Avg.      34.7      40.9     6.7     47.6     6.9      9.9      3.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 2 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £31.86. One in every 70.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.41% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,423,976.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £178.
• The numbers 28 and 38 moved into joint second position in the main number frequency table after their 49th such appearances.
• However, the winning number frequency table has the number 25 streaking ahead at the top after its 60th such appearance, giving it a lead of three on the number 28.
• At the basement of the winning number frequency table, the 33rd appearance of the number 39 has left the number 19 two adrift at the very bottom.
• The winning number triple 26, 38, 46 has become only fourth such triple to have appeared five times since the lottery began.
• A 5+bonus prize of £200,236 won by a ticket bought in the Borders of Scotland area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.
• £1,422,010 of unclaimed prizes (3.76% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 10th June 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #311 (Wednesday 16th December 1998) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #309 (Wednesday 9th December 1998) [2 jackpot winners]

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