UK National Lotto #982

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 21st May 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,930,787           3    £5,792,361      35.7%
5+bonus       £178,226          10    £1,782,260      11.0%
5 match         £2,602         428    £1,113,656       6.9%
4 match            £94      26,037    £2,447,478      15.1%
3 match            £10     507,721    £5,077,210      31.3%
Totals                     534,199   £16,212,965     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.7% fall   £36,036,369     63.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     19.9% fall   £20,396,883     36.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      9.2% fall   £56,433,252   

Lotto HotPicks #300 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           26       £182,000      18.6%
Pick 3              £450          846       £380,700      38.9%
Pick 2               £40       10,391       £415,640      42.5%
Totals                         11,263       £978,340     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       47       138      20      158       1       62        1 
2nd       34       111      19      130       4       47        4 
3rd       43       142      21      163       2       23        2 
4th       38       151      24      175       5      120        5 
5th       48       130      15      145       2       70        2 
6th       14       114      22      136      11       34       11 
Bonus     09       123      27      150      19       36       19 
Total    233       909     148     1057      44      392       44
Avg.      33.3     129.9    21.1    151.0     6.3     56.0      6.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 6 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.35. One in every 67.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.48% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,896,678.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 24 wins totalling £270.
• 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 17th November 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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