UK National Lotto #1668

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 17th December 2011:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,672,310           1    £4,672,310      36.0%
5+bonus       £143,763          10    £1,437,630      11.1%
5 match         £2,523         356      £898,188       6.9%
4 match            £97      20,260    £1,965,220      15.2%
3 match            £10     398,894    £3,988,940      30.8%
Totals                     419,521   £12,962,288     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)     15.5% fall   £28,831,452     64.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     19.7% fall   £15,846,578     35.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     17.1% fall   £44,678,030   

Lotto HotPicks #986 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           12        £84,000      13.3%
Pick 3              £450          663       £298,350      47.1%
Pick 2               £40        5,632       £225,280      35.6%
Pick 1                £5        5,056        £25,280       4.0%
Totals                         11,363       £632,910     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       42       200      32      232      27       33       27 
2nd       01       193      33      226       4       16        4 
3rd       35       213      33      246       4       29        4 
4th       48       210      28      238       4       40        4 
5th       39       218      21      239       2       42        2 
6th       22       194      32      226       7       72        7 
Bonus     12       200      38      238       9      120        9 
Total    199      1428     217     1645      57      352       57
Avg.      28.4     204.0    31.0    235.0     8.1     50.3      8.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 5 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.90. One in every 68.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.46% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,591,391.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 40 wins totalling £908.
• 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 14th June 2012 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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