UK National Lotto #978

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 7th May 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,856,652	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£180,204	10	£1,802,040	16.9%
5 match	£2,607	432	£1,126,224	10.5%
4 match	£94	26,329	£2,474,926	23.2%
3 match	£10	527,318	£5,273,180	49.4%
Totals	554,089		£10,676,370	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		8.6% fall	£36,746,606	64.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.2% fall	£19,903,381	35.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		6.1% fall	£56,649,987

Lotto HotPicks #296 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	13	£91,000	12.5%
Pick 3	£450	656	£295,200	40.4%
Pick 2	£40	8,589	£343,560	47.1%
Totals	9,258		£729,760	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £78.82.

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	34	110	19	129	10	43	10
2nd	35	125	21	146	1	5	1
3rd	49	115	17	132	9	117	9
4th	06	122	24	146	14	7	7
5th	02	122	16	138	2	64	2
6th	21	104	29	133	12	27	12
Bonus	46	119	21	140	28	1	1
Total	193	817	147	964	76	264	42
Avg.	27.6	116.7	21.0	137.7	10.9	37.7	6.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.27. One in every 66.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.51% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,440,778.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £253.

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 3rd November 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #979 (Wednesday 11th May 2005) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #977 (Wednesday 4th May 2005) [3 jackpot winners]

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