UK National Lotto #1780

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 12th January 2013:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot       £278,365           8    £2,226,920      17.5%
5+bonus        £17,569          39      £685,191       5.4%
5 match           £257       1,666      £428,162       3.4%
4 match            £14      64,091      £897,274       7.1%
3 match            £10     845,945    £8,459,450      66.6%
Totals                     911,749   £12,696,997     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      4.1% fall   £28,315,530     64.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.6% rise   £15,396,382     35.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      2.2% fall   £43,711,912   

Lotto HotPicks #1098 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           60       £420,000      15.1%
Pick 3              £450        3,622     £1,629,900      58.6%
Pick 2               £40       17,241       £689,640      24.8%
Pick 1                £5        8,231        £41,155       1.5%
Totals                         29,154     £2,780,695     100.0%

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       03       215      41      256       5       63        5 
2nd       11       234      36      270       5       23        5 
3rd       27       230      31      261      12       10       10 
4th       24       217      32      249       1       94        1 
5th       12       212      39      251      15       79       15 
6th       07       215      28      243       3       51        3 
Bonus     13       186      19      205      32        6        6 
Total     97      1509     226     1735      73      326       45
Avg.      13.9     215.6    32.3    247.9    10.4     46.6      6.4

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 8 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £13.93. One in every 31.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=3.22% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £11,280,675.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 30 wins totalling £330.
• 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.
• The last time the main Lotto had 8 or more jackpot winners was some 15 months ago and those Oct 2011 winners got a prize that was almost 80% larger!
• The main Lotto jackpot prize was the 12th lowest of all time and the worst for over 2.5 years.
• Even more woeful were the individual prizes for 5+bonus (£17,569 - 8th lowest ever), 5-match (£257 - 3rd lowest ever) and 4-match (£14 - 2nd lowest ever).
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 5.30pm BST on Thursday 11th July 2013 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1781 (Wednesday 16th January 2013) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1779 (Wednesday 9th January 2013) [1 jackpot winner]

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