UK National Lottery #252 (Single Rollover Draw) (Super Draw #29)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.02pm BST on Saturday 23rd May 1998:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 36th single rollover draw and the 39th rollover in total, included £4,464,612 (22.3%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £15,535,388 (77.7%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£10,000,000	2	£20,000,000	49.4%
5+bonus	£82,873	40	£3,314,920	8.2%
5 match	£2,029	1,021	£2,071,609	5.1%
4 match	£79	57,041	£4,506,239	11.1%
3 match	£10	1,058,529	£10,585,290	26.2%
Totals	1,116,633		£40,478,058	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		22.1% rise	£20,705,044	21.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		6.8% rise	£77,712,821	79.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		13.8% rise	£69,563,480	70.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.8% rise	£28,854,385	29.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		9.7% rise	£98,417,865	88.6% of combined sales
Instants sales		1.3% rise	£12,700,019	11.4% of combined sales
Combined sales		8.6% rise	£111,117,884
Good causes		5.3% rise	£30,575,818.53	27.5% 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	24	26	7	33	6	30	6
2nd	20	25	11	36	28	14	14
3rd	47	32	11	43	13	4	4
4th	08	29	5	34	28	16	16
5th	43	39	5	44	8	48	8
6th	35	33	0	33	1	Never	1
Bonus	32	29	3	32	27	53	27
Total	209	213	42	255	111	417	76
Avg.	29.9	30.4	6.0	36.4	15.9	59.6	10.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £36.25. One in every 62.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.61% of players).

This was the 29th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £20,000,000.

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £3,348,446.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 8 wins totalling £80.

The appearance of the main number 8 has left the number 32 as the outright longest main number absentee (not appeared for 27 draws).

There are only 5 winning number pairs (out of a possible 1,176) that have failed to appear in any of the lotteries to date.

This was a record 28th consecutive Saturday draw where there was at least one jackpot winner.

More than £100 million has now been used to top-up the 29 Super Draws to date.

A 5+bonus prize of £82,873 won by a ticket bought in the Sevenoaks area remains unclaimed at the moment.

I matched nothing on my first ticket, two numbers on my second ticket and one number on each of my third and fourth tickets, which meant yet another Super Draw passed by for me without a win.

£1,434,705 of unclaimed prizes (2.93% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 19th November 1998 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #253 (Wednesday 27th May 1998) [6 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #251 (Wednesday 20th May 1998) [No jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #252 (Single Rollover Draw) (Super Draw #29)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.02pm BST on Saturday 23rd May 1998:

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Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.55am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020