UK National Lotto #1044 (Super Draw #68)

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 24th December 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot    £15,000,000           1   £15,000,000      49.4%
5+bonus       £152,900          14    £2,140,600       7.0%
5 match         £1,682         795    £1,337,190       4.4%
4 match            £60      48,459    £2,907,540       9.6%
3 match            £10     898,437    £8,984,370      29.6%
Totals                     947,706   £30,369,700     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)     40.0% rise   £49,695,823     71.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.8% rise   £19,499,325     28.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     26.7% rise   £69,195,148   

Lotto HotPicks #362 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            1       £130,000       5.8%
Pick 4            £7,000           54       £378,000      16.9%
Pick 3              £450        2,056       £925,200      41.5%
Pick 2               £40       17,940       £717,600      32.2%
Pick 1                £5       16,079        £80,395       3.6%
Totals                         36,130     £2,231,195     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       25       148      28      176       4       27        4 
2nd       30       138      23      161       4       30        4 
3rd       17       121      24      145       3       14        3 
4th       21       114      29      143       2       93        2 
5th       27       133      15      148       3       80        3 
6th       37       116      25      141       7       54        7 
Bonus     16       106      21      127      44      127       44 
Total    173       876     165     1041      67      425       67
Avg.      24.7     125.1    23.6    148.7     9.6     60.7      9.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 2 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £32.05. One in every 52.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.91% of players).
• This was the 68th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £15,000,000.
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £2,714,618.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 20 wins totalling £430.
• 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 BST on Thursday 22nd June 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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