UK National Lotto #898

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 31st July 2004:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,684,767           2    £5,369,534      31.4%
5+bonus       £118,011          14    £1,652,154       9.7%
5 match         £1,364         757    £1,032,548       6.1%
4 match            £61      37,030    £2,258,830      13.2%
3 match            £10     677,117    £6,771,170      39.6%
Totals                     714,920   £17,084,236     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)     12.3% fall   £37,993,772     63.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.4% rise   £22,070,450     36.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      7.7% fall   £60,064,222   

Lotto HotPicks #216 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           25       £175,000      16.7%
Pick 3              £450          922       £414,900      39.6%
Pick 2               £40       11,466       £458,640      43.7%
Totals                         12,413     £1,048,540     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       40       118      11      129       3       51        3 
2nd       29       108      21      129       9       47        9 
3rd       03       107      20      127       4       10        4 
4th       13        89      12      101       3        7        3 
5th       48       117      14      131       2      229        2 
6th       17       106      19      125       7       12        7 
Bonus     39        98      12      110      21       81       21 
Total    189       743     109      852      49      437       49
Avg.      27.0     106.1    15.6    121.7     7.0     62.4      7.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 3 in the Pearl machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.90. One in every 53.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.88% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,119,835.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £2,778.
• 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 GMT on Thursday 27th January 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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