UK National Lottery #98

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 28th September 1996:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,657,056	4	£10,628,224	34.5%
5+bonus	£218,014	15	£3,270,210	10.6%
5 match	£2,671	765	£2,043,315	6.6%
4 match	£92	48,449	£4,457,308	14.4%
3 match	£10	1,045,121	£10,451,210	33.9%
Totals	1,094,354		£30,850,267	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip sales		8.9% rise	£7,731,363	11.3% of ticket sales
Manual sales		0.7% fall	£60,913,324	88.7% of ticket sales
Ticket sales		0.3% rise	£68,644,687	80.6% of combined sales
Instants sales		1.7% fall	£16,554,100	19.4% of combined sales
Combined sales		0.1% fall	£85,198,787
Good causes		0.1% fall	£22,818,620.72	26.8% 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	19	8	2	10	9	58	9
2nd	26	15	1	16	8	57	8
3rd	23	11	2	13	7	23	7
4th	39	5	0	5	6	Never	6
5th	36	9	3	12	7	12	7
6th	31	13	1	14	8	95	8
Bonus	03	9	4	13	4	36	4
Total	177	70	13	83	49	379	49
Avg.	25.3	10.0	1.9	11.9	7.0	54.1	7.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £28.19. One in every 62.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.59% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,526,531.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included one win of £10.

The draw-shy number 39 popped its head out for only the 5th time to date, still leaving it two appearances adrift at the bottom of the main number frequency table and four adrift at the base of the winning number version.

This draw had the second narrowest range (20=39-19) of main numbers in the history of the lottery.

As I predicted, the figure for the total prizes awarded by the lottery to date has now exceeded £3 billion.

This was the 12th consecutive draw that the jackpot was won, which is the second longest such sequence to date.

Over £2 billion has now been spent on scratchcards.

Ticket sales rose for the fourth consecutive week which has surprisingly never happened before.

Lucky Dip sales continued to impressively rise, this time reaching an all-time record level and also exceeding 11% of ticket sales for the first time.

Not a single match on either of my tickets this week :-(

£839,859 of unclaimed prizes (2.72% of the total prize pool) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 27th March 1997 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #99 (Saturday 5th October 1996) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #97 (Saturday 21st September 1996) [1 jackpot winner]

UK National Lottery #98

Winning numbers drawn at 8.03pm BST on Saturday 28th September 1996:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.59am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020