UK National Lotto #1729 (Double Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 18th July 2012:

11 26 34 38 40 46 (07)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 46th double rollover draw and the 352nd rollover in total, included £6,718,078 (69.5%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £2,941,608 (30.5%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £9,659,686           1    £9,659,686      64.6%
5+bonus       £181,022           5      £905,110       6.1%
5 match         £2,427         233      £565,491       3.8%
4 match            £92      13,395    £1,232,340       8.2%
3 match            £10     259,118    £2,591,180      17.3%
Totals                     272,752   £14,953,807     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            18.0% rise   £18,329,156

Lotto HotPicks #1047 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           11        £77,000      13.9%
Pick 3              £450          575       £258,750      46.7%
Pick 2               £40        4,848       £193,920      35.0%
Pick 1                £5        4,869        £24,345       4.4%
Totals                         10,303       £554,015     100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £53.77.

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       38       240      49      289       2       55        2 
2nd       26       211      35      246      11       32       11 
3rd       11       228      35      263      38       14       14 
4th       34       216      35      251       4      120        4 
5th       46       203      36      239       1       20        1 
6th       40       233      26      259       9       27        9 
Bonus     07       206      28      234      14      203       14 
Total    202      1537     244     1781      79      471       55
Avg.      28.9     219.6    34.9    254.4    11.3     67.3      7.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £54.83. One in every 67.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.49% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,531,485.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 34 wins totalling £407.
From Saturday 12th July 2003 onwards, Camelot has completely refused to issue per-draw sales figures for any of their individual games, despite continuously doing so for more than 8 years prior to that date. They blamed the media for only concentrating on the main Lotto game sales (which have been falling steadily for years), which seems to be a poor excuse to me. However, games with variable prize tiers such as the main Lotto can have their sales figures reverse-calculated to within a few pounds, which is what I have done.
I had my third 4-match win to date on the 5th of the 6 tickets I bought for this draw. It was the joint 239th highest 4-match prize out of all 1,729 draws to date, placing it well above the average 4-match prize of £62 (or my previous best win of £59).
Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 5.30pm GMT on Monday 14th January 2013 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1730 (Saturday 21st July 2012) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1728 (Saturday 14th July 2012) [No jackpot winners]

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