UK National Lotto #732

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 28th December 2002:

02 18 20 32 36 37 (05)

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,114,722           2    £6,229,444      36.0%
5+bonus       £159,729          12    £1,916,748      11.1%
5 match         £3,169         378    £1,197,882       6.9%
4 match           £107      24,524    £2,624,068      15.1%
3 match            £10     534,618    £5,346,180      30.9%
Totals                     559,534   £17,314,322     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)     11.4% fall   £38,501,959     60.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     17.9% rise   £25,398,927     39.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.7% fall   £63,900,886

Lotto HotPicks #50 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           26       £182,000      13.6%
Pick 3              £450        1,102       £495,900      37.0%
Pick 2               £40       16,521       £660,840      49.4%
Totals                         17,649     £1,338,740     100.0%
Ticket sales                         £2,977,466

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £75.85 and one in every 168.0 Lotto HotPicks tickets won a prize (=0.59% of players).

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       32       102       9      111       1       21        1 
2nd       37        81      18       99       2       52        2 
3rd       36        93      16      109       6       14        6 
4th       02        99      13      112       6       75        6 
5th       20        76      22       98       8      107        8 
6th       18        87       9       96      11        6        6 
Bonus     05        82      15       97      10      131       10 
Total    150       620     102      722      44      406       39
Avg.      21.4      88.6    14.6    103.1     6.3     58.0      5.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.94. One in every 68.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.45% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,247,982.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £239.
Thanks to two of the last four days being UK public holidays, ticket sales for the main draw plummeted to their lowest level ever for a Saturday draw, dipping below £39m for the first time. In fact, 2002 has been the worst year sales-wise for the lottery by a long, long way, with 35 of the 52 Saturday draws this year entirely occupying the bottom 35 out of the 424 all-time Saturday sales positions.
HotPicks also suffered terrible sales, dropping below £3m for the first time for a Saturday HotPicks game.
Only four ticket combinations have now failed to win in any of the 732 main lotteries to date.
I matched nothing on either of my two tickets, so that's another whitewash to notch up.
Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 26th June 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #733 (Wednesday 1st January 2003) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #731 (Tuesday 24th December 2002) [3 jackpot winners]

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