UK National Lotto #688

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 27th July 2002:

24 26 28 29 34 44 (45)

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £5,976,877           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus       £167,185          11    £1,839,035      15.6%
5 match         £2,654         433    £1,149,182       9.7%
4 match            £84      30,033    £2,522,772      21.4%
3 match            £10     629,679    £6,296,790      53.3%
Totals                     660,156   £11,807,779     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      2.0% fall   £39,535,080     64.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     18.7% fall   £22,019,906     35.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      8.7% fall   £61,554,986

Lotto HotPicks #6 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           33       £231,000      11.1%
Pick 3              £450        1,945       £875,250      41.9%
Pick 2               £40       24,489       £979,560      47.0%
Totals                         26,467     £2,085,810     100.0%
Ticket sales                         £4,135,836

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £78.81 and one in every 156.0 Lotto HotPicks tickets won a prize (=0.64% 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       24        84      16      100       4        5        4 
2nd       44       103      13      116       6      104        6 
3rd       26        79      15       94      15       39       15 
4th       29        79      13       92       7       65        7 
5th       28        93      16      109       8       70        8 
6th       34        79      17       96       1       49        1 
Bonus     45        85      19      104       3       84        3 
Total    230       602     109      711      44      416       44
Avg.      32.9      86.0    15.6    101.6     6.3     59.4      6.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Vyvyan machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.89. One in every 59.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.67% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,371,106.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 5 wins totalling £162.
For the first time ever, ticket sales for a Saturday draw dropped below £40m.
Lotto HotPicks continues to perform well, again setting record ticket sales (most of which probably came from people who "defected" from the main draw) and the highest number of Pick 2 and Pick 3 winners to date.
I matched two numbers on my first ticket and one on my second to continue my recent losing run.
Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 23rd January 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #689 (Wednesday 31st July 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #687 (Wednesday 24th July 2002) [2 jackpot winners]

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