UK National Lottery #297
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm GMT on Wednesday 28th October 1998:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
Jackpot | £1,276,255 | 3 | £3,828,765 | 30.1% |
5+bonus | £196,346 | 6 | £1,178,076 | 9.2% |
5 match | £1,366 | 539 | £736,274 | 5.8% |
4 match | £55 | 29,179 | £1,604,845 | 12.6% |
3 match | £10 | 539,489 | £5,394,890 | 42.3% |
Totals | 569,216 | £12,742,850 | 100.0% |
Category | Change | Figure |
Ticket sales | 0.4% fall | £28,350,889 |
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 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £22.39.
One in every 49.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.01% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,993,346.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 4 wins totalling £40.
- The number 41 has now appeared in
5 consecutive
draws as a winning number, which is
only one less than the number 44's all-time
record 6-in-a-row sequence.
- The main number pair 01, 31 now has an
impressive lead of three at the top of the
main number pairs frequency
table after its 14th
such appearance. It's moved to outright top of the
winning number pairs frequency
table after being
drawn as such for the 16th time.
- Arthur and ball set 2 has become the first
machine and ball set
combination to have been used together 30 times since
the lottery began.
- I matched nothing on either of my two tickets, which
ironically matched the deadly silence (no studio audience !)
of the current Amazing Luck Wednesday lottery
TV show.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 26th April 1999 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lottery: #298 (Saturday 31st October 1998) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #296 (Saturday 24th October 1998) [4 jackpot winners]