UK National Lottery #268 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 18th July 1998:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 38th single rollover draw and the 41st rollover in total, included £4,460,588 (36.6%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £7,711,168 (63.4%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,014,313	12	£12,171,756	37.9%
5+bonus	£76,537	31	£2,372,647	7.4%
5 match	£748	1,980	£1,481,040	4.6%
4 match	£39	82,868	£3,231,852	10.1%
3 match	£10	1,281,872	£12,818,720	40.0%
Totals	1,366,763		£32,076,015	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Lucky Dip (S+W)		18.3% rise	£17,504,662	19.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Manual sales (S+W)		15.0% fall	£73,053,915	80.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Sat)		5.2% fall	£61,439,767	67.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		18.8% fall	£29,118,810	32.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		10.1% fall	£90,558,577	86.0% of combined sales
Instants sales		3.7% rise	£14,707,000	14.0% of combined sales
Combined sales		8.4% fall	£105,265,577
Good causes		6.6% fall	£30,138,955.99	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	42	36	5	41	12	13	12
2nd	44	43	7	50	5	55	5
3rd	20	27	11	38	9	30	9
4th	03	29	6	35	2	105	2
5th	33	33	6	39	3	15	3
6th	11	32	4	36	6	96	6
Bonus	36	36	6	42	3	129	3
Total	189	236	45	281	40	443	40
Avg.	27.0	33.7	6.4	40.1	5.7	63.3	5.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.47. One in every 45.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.22% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,838,727.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £60.

The number 44 is now the outright leader of the main number frequency table after appearing as such for the 43rd time.

The triple 33, 42, 44 has become only the second triple to have been drawn as either a main number triple 4 times or as a winning number triple 5 times since the lottery began.

The lottery machine Merlin was used in a draw for the first time, which means that there are now four lottery machines. Before you complain, it wasn't Merlin in the first ever draw - it was actually Guinevere.

This was the first time that three consecutive Saturday draws have been "non-normal" (i.e. a Super Draw or a rollover).

I matched 2, 0, 1 and 0 numbers on my four tickets, so the return to normal Saturday lottery shows wasn't much help.

A jackpot prize of £1,014,313 won by a ticket bought in the County Down area expired and was added to the Good Causes fund.

£2,198,684 of unclaimed prizes (5.40% of the total prize pool of this week's Wednesday and Saturday draws) from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 14th January 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #269 (Wednesday 22nd July 1998) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lottery: #267 (Wednesday 15th July 1998) [No jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #268 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.08pm BST on Saturday 18th July 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