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UK National Lottery #237
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.43pm BST on Wednesday 1st April 1998:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £4,955,119 | 0 | £0 | 0.0% - rolled over |
| 5+bonus | £381,163 | 4 | £1,524,652 | 18.6% |
| 5 match | £2,836 | 336 | £952,896 | 11.6% |
| 4 match | £128 | 16,354 | £2,093,312 | 25.5% |
| 3 match | £10 | 364,112 | £3,641,120 | 44.3% |
| Totals | 380,806 | £8,211,980 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure |
| Ticket sales | 0.3% fall | £29,267,101 |
The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 3 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.56.
One in every 76.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.30% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,172,922.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £60.
- The winning number pair 01, 31 has become only the 4th such
pair to have appeared 11 times in the
history of the lottery.
- The combination of a low consecutive pair and a high consecutive triple
resulted in very low numbers of winners and hence quite large prizes:
- The number of 5+bonus winners was the
joint lowest ever, meaning that the 5+bonus prize was
the highest ever for a Wednesday draw.
- The number of 4-match winners was the outright lowest ever for any draw,
again making the 4-match prize the highest there's been for a Wednesday
draw to date.
- The number of 3-match winners (and hence the 3-match prize pool) was
the second lowest in the history of the lottery.
- The total number of winners was the second lowest for any draw since
the lottery began.
- Ticket sales fell for a record 10th
consecutive draw.
- The Arthur machine has become the first one to have
been used 100 times.
- I matched nothing on either of my two tickets, so even
April Fools Day didn't help me win.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 28th September 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #238 (Saturday 4th April 1998) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #236 (Saturday 28th March 1998) [1 jackpot winner]
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