UK National Lotto #708

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 5th October 2002:

15 16 18 36 37 49 (28)

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £6,693,924           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus       £121,157          17    £2,059,669      18.3%
5 match         £3,469         371    £1,286,999      11.5%
4 match           £125      22,563    £2,820,375      25.1%
3 match            £10     506,193    £5,061,930      45.1%
Totals                     529,144   £11,228,973     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.8% rise   £39,855,248     58.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     28.5% rise   £28,612,882     41.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     10.8% rise   £68,468,130

Lotto HotPicks #26 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           24       £168,000      11.4%
Pick 3              £450        1,193       £536,850      36.5%
Pick 2               £40       19,149       £765,960      52.1%
Totals                         20,366     £1,470,810     100.0%
Ticket sales                         £3,615,868

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £72.22 and one in every 177.0 Lotto HotPicks tickets won a prize (=0.56% 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       37        77      18       95       5       28        5 
2nd       49        80      12       92      26       19       19 
3rd       15        82      13       95       1       54        1 
4th       18        84       7       91      10       16       10 
5th       16        76      14       90       2       81        2 
6th       36        88      15      103      11       17       11 
Bonus     28        97      18      115       7        8        7 
Total    199       584      97      681      62      223       55
Avg.      28.4      83.4    13.9     97.3     8.9     31.9      7.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 14 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.22. One in every 75.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.33% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £4,396,701.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £157.
The main draw had the lowest number of 3-match, 4-match and total prize winners of any Saturday draw to date, which - thanks to the lack of a main Lotto jackpot winner - resulted in the lowest Saturday total prize pool ever.
The ticket 15 16 18 28 36 49 has become the first to win two 5+bonus prizes (the other one was only back in June this year !). Sure enough, some lucky soul, Mike McDermott, did indeed win those two 5+bonus prizes...
This draw had the lowest number of Match 3 HotPicks winners for a Saturday draw to date.
This was the first time that a HotPicks category (Match 4 in this case) had the same number of winners (24) in two consecutive draws.
I matched absolutely nothing on either of my two tickets, so I can't say I'm bitter about the lack of a jackpot winner :-)
Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 3rd April 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #709 (Wednesday 9th October 2002) [5 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #707 (Wednesday 2nd October 2002) [1 jackpot winner]

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