UK National Lotto #1008

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 20th August 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,481,086           3    £4,443,258      27.2%
5+bonus       £113,929          12    £1,367,148       8.4%
5 match         £1,035         825      £853,875       5.2%
4 match            £43      43,616    £1,875,488      11.5%
3 match            £10     779,885    £7,798,850      47.7%
Totals                     824,341   £16,338,619     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.9% fall   £36,319,060     64.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.6% fall   £20,337,187     35.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.1% fall   £56,656,247   

Lotto HotPicks #326 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           38       £266,000      15.1%
Pick 3              £450        1,571       £706,950      40.2%
Pick 2               £40       19,655       £786,200      44.7%
Totals                         21,264     £1,759,150     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       20        97      27      124      12       13       12 
2nd       44       145      17      162       2        7        2 
3rd       11       137      21      158      19       76       19 
4th       12       129      19      148       7      130        7 
5th       38       155      25      180      10       12       10 
6th       07       127      16      143       4       14        4 
Bonus     45       128      24      152       6       77        6 
Total    177       918     149     1067      60      329       60
Avg.      25.3     131.1    21.3    152.4     8.6     47.0      8.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.82. One in every 44.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.27% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,947,927.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £170.
• 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 16th February 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #1009 (Wednesday 24th August 2005) [No jackpot winners]
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