UK National Lottery #244 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.02pm BST on Saturday 25th April 1998:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 34th single rollover draw and the 37th rollover in total, included £3,321,191 (25.5%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £9,687,994 (74.5%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,601,837	5	£13,009,185	40.2%
5+bonus	£229,301	13	£2,980,913	9.2%
5 match	£2,025	920	£1,863,000	5.8%
4 match	£76	53,697	£4,080,972	12.6%
3 match	£10	1,041,111	£10,411,110	32.2%
Totals	1,095,746		£32,345,180	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		20.2% rise	£18,208,706	19.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		5.6% rise	£75,233,135	80.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		11.6% rise	£64,537,494	69.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.0% rise	£28,904,347	30.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		8.1% rise	£93,441,841	86.4% of combined sales
Instants sales		7.9% rise	£14,678,104	13.6% of combined sales
Combined sales		8.1% rise	£108,119,945
Good causes		7.4% rise	£30,900,441.94	28.6% 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	17	33	5	38	20	13	13
2nd	38	38	3	41	6	29	6
3rd	22	30	6	36	5	26	5
4th	48	33	4	37	6	19	6
5th	43	38	5	43	4	40	4
6th	36	33	5	38	3	105	3
Bonus	16	28	7	35	13	66	13
Total	220	233	35	268	57	298	50
Avg.	31.4	33.3	5.0	38.3	8.1	42.6	7.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £29.52. One in every 58.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.70% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,692,851.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 7 wins totalling £107.

The jackpot top-up amount was the lowest ever for any rollover to date.

I matched nothing on my first and third tickets and only one number on my second and fourth tickets, so the rollover didn't help my terrible losing run one little bit.

A 5+bonus prize of £229,301 won by a ticket bought in the Manchester area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.

£1,343,702 of unclaimed prizes (3.20% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 22nd October 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #245 (Wednesday 29th April 1998) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #243 (Wednesday 22nd April 1998) [No jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #244 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.02pm BST on Saturday 25th April 1998:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.55am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020