UK National Lotto #971

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 13th April 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,379,709	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£148,558	7	£1,039,906	18.1%
5 match	£3,080	211	£649,880	11.3%
4 match	£109	13,021	£1,419,289	24.6%
3 match	£10	264,580	£2,645,800	46.0%
Totals	277,819		£5,754,875	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		0.8% fall	£20,322,760

Lotto HotPicks #289 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	15	£105,000	19.2%
Pick 3	£450	431	£193,950	35.5%
Pick 2	£40	6,179	£247,160	45.3%
Totals	6,625		£546,110	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £82.43.

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	36	113	23	136	2	3	2
2nd	41	96	20	116	9	16	9
3rd	48	127	15	142	5	59	5
4th	23	133	19	152	4	34	4
5th	14	113	22	135	1	23	1
6th	40	129	13	142	5	28	5
Bonus	06	121	24	145	7	2	2
Total	208	832	136	968	33	165	28
Avg.	29.7	118.9	19.4	138.3	4.7	23.6	4.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.71. One in every 73.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.37% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,455,456.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £140.

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 BST on Monday 10th October 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #972 (Saturday 16th April 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #970 (Saturday 9th April 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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