UK National Lotto #687
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 24th July 2002:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Jackpot £1,456,675 2 £2,913,350 29.4%
5+bonus £74,701 12 £896,412 9.1%
5 match £815 687 £559,905 5.7%
4 match £45 27,001 £1,215,045 12.3%
3 match £10 430,636 £4,306,360 43.5%
Totals 458,338 £9,891,072 100.0%
Category Change Figure
Ticket sales 18.7% fall £22,019,906
Lotto HotPicks #5 results:
Category Prize Winners Total Percentages
Pick 4 £7,000 32 £224,000 15.4%
Pick 3 £450 1,434 £645,300 44.2%
Pick 2 £40 14,747 £589,880 40.4%
Totals 16,213 £1,459,180 100.0%
Ticket sales £2,635,903
The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £90.00 and one in every 162.0 Lotto HotPicks tickets won a prize (=0.62% of players).
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 43 99 14 113 4 202 4
2nd 35 83 10 93 21 29 21
3rd 13 65 10 75 11 16 11
4th 21 69 16 85 3 53 3
5th 34 78 17 95 1 48 1
6th 07 87 9 96 1 195 1
Bonus 10 86 15 101 1 14 1
Total 163 567 91 658 42 557 42
Avg. 23.3 81.0 13.0 94.0 6.0 79.6 6.0
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 6 in the Vyvyan machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.58.
One in every 48.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.08% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,490,974.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 10 wins totalling £100.
- The two rarest main numbers, 13 and 21,
made their 65th and 69th
appearances respectively. The
number 13 also moved to within eight of the rest of the pack at the
bottom of the winning number frequency
table after its 75th
such appearance.
- Ticket sales fell heavily to their
second lowest level ever.
- Quite impressively, Lotto HotPicks hasn't peaked yet it appears - it
had record ticket sales for a Wednesday and the highest number of
Wednesday winners in all categories. The game appears to be enjoying about
the same level of popularity as the Thunderball lottery, though note that
these HotPicks gains have been counterbalanced by large falls in both the main
Lotto and Lotto Extra sales.
- BBC teletext page 557 incorrectly stated the number of Lotto HotPicks
Pick 2 winners as 14,742.
- I matched one number on each of my two tickets, so the arrival of
my annual subscription certificate didn't boost my luck at all.
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 20th January 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lotto: #688 (Saturday 27th July 2002) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #686 (Saturday 20th July 2002) [2 jackpot winners]