UK National Lotto #868

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 17th April 2004:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,778,609           2    £5,557,218      33.0%
5+bonus       £100,583          17    £1,709,911      10.2%
5 match         £2,298         465    £1,068,570       6.4%
4 match            £77      30,437    £2,343,649      13.9%
3 match            £10     614,397    £6,143,970      36.5%
Totals                     645,318   £16,823,318     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      6.3% fall   £37,402,070     55.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     45.7% rise   £30,152,183     44.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     11.4% rise   £67,554,253   

Lotto HotPicks #186 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           13        £91,000      11.8%
Pick 3              £450          626       £281,700      36.6%
Pick 2               £40        9,912       £396,480      51.6%
Totals                         10,551       £769,180     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       48       113      14      127       8      199        8 
2nd       31       116      24      140      18       33       18 
3rd       03       103      19      122       1       41        1 
4th       21        94      24      118       6       43        6 
5th       42        97      18      115       8       24        8 
6th       47       122      19      141       2       15        2 
Bonus     34       102      18      120       2      229        2 
Total    226       747     136      883      45      584       45
Avg.      32.3     106.7    19.4    126.1     6.4     83.4      6.4

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 8 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £26.07. One in every 58.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.73% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,903,856.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £197.
• 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.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 5.30pm BST on Thursday 14th October 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #869 (Wednesday 21st April 2004) [No jackpot winners]
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