UK National Lotto #979 (Single Rollover Draw)

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 11th May 2005:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 151st single rollover draw and the 169th rollover in total, included £5,856,652 (65.0%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £3,152,453 (35.0%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,003,035           3    £9,009,105      52.1%
5+bonus        £53,888          18      £969,984       5.6%
5 match           £969         625      £605,625       3.5%
4 match            £40      32,649    £1,305,960       7.6%
3 match            £10     539,137    £5,391,370      31.2%
Totals                     572,432   £17,282,044     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            27.9% rise   £25,452,844   

Lotto HotPicks #297 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           22       £154,000      13.9%
Pick 3              £450        1,149       £517,050      46.7%
Pick 2               £40       10,896       £435,840      39.4%
Totals                         12,067     £1,106,890     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       17       113      22      135      22       26       22 
2nd       43       140      21      161       5       20        5 
3rd       06       123      24      147       1        8        1 
4th       29       116      24      140       5        4        4 
5th       11       133      21      154      12       47       12 
6th       01       119      19      138      12       27       12 
Bonus     08       115      23      138      15        9        9 
Total    115       859     154     1013      72      141       65
Avg.      16.4     122.7    22.0    144.7    10.3     20.1      9.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.19. One in every 44.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.25% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,107,107.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £150.
• 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 draw expired at 5.30pm GMT on Monday 7th November 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #980 (Saturday 14th May 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
  Previous Lotto: #978 (Saturday 7th May 2005) [No jackpot winners]

  

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