UK National Lotto #977

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 4th May 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,133,185	3	£3,399,555	38.0%
5+bonus	£116,224	9	£1,046,016	11.7%
5 match	£2,122	308	£653,576	7.3%
4 match	£112	12,784	£1,431,808	16.0%
3 match	£10	241,891	£2,418,910	27.0%
Totals	254,995		£8,949,865	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		1.2% fall	£19,903,381

Lotto HotPicks #295 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	15	£105,000	17.7%
Pick 3	£450	538	£242,100	40.9%
Pick 2	£40	6,117	£244,680	41.4%
Totals	6,670		£591,780	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £88.72.

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	41	98	21	119	4	5	4
2nd	30	125	21	146	1	97	1
3rd	48	128	15	143	6	65	6
4th	38	150	24	174	4	115	4
5th	45	124	23	147	7	46	7
6th	35	124	21	145	14	4	4
Bonus	46	119	20	139	27	48	27
Total	283	868	145	1013	63	380	53
Avg.	40.4	124.0	20.7	144.7	9.0	54.3	7.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £35.10. One in every 78.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.28% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,082,669.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 19 wins totalling £297.

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 31st October 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #978 (Saturday 7th May 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #976 (Saturday 30th April 2005) [3 jackpot winners]

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