UK National Lotto #709 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 9th October 2002:

07 22 25 31 44 47 (01)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 96th single rollover draw and the 103rd rollover in total, included £6,693,924 (64.5%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £3,688,001 (35.5%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,076,385           5   £10,381,925      51.8%
5+bonus        £36,605          31    £1,134,755       5.7%
5 match           £854         830      £708,820       3.5%
4 match            £39      39,981    £1,559,259       7.8%
3 match            £10     624,115    £6,241,150      31.2%
Totals                     664,962   £20,025,909     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             3.6% rise   £29,629,930

Lotto HotPicks #27 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           24       £168,000      11.1%
Pick 3              £450        1,452       £653,400      43.1%
Pick 2               £40       17,373       £694,920      45.8%
Totals                         18,849     £1,516,320     100.0%
Ticket sales                         £2,629,502

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £80.45 and one in every 139.0 Lotto HotPicks tickets won a prize (=0.72% 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       07        92       9      101       5      217        5 
2nd       44       106      13      119       8      125        8 
3rd       47        97      18      115       4      202        4 
4th       31       101      17      118       9       16        9 
5th       25       101      19      120      29       65       29 
6th       22        76      18       94      18       43       18 
Bonus     01        87      13      100       5       67        5 
Total    177       660     107      767      78      735       78
Avg.      25.3      94.3    15.3    109.6    11.1    105.0     11.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.12. One in every 44.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.24% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,514,271.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 20 wins totalling £1,716.
This was only the second draw (the first one being back in January 2001) to have 5 of its 6 main numbers appear in an earlier draw (draw #175, back in August 1997).
Even more impressively, if you continued to play the £2.5m-winning jackpot ticket (01 07 22 25 31 47) for draw #175 all the way through to this draw, you'd be rewarded with a £36,605 5+bonus win for this draw, which is the first time this has happened.
Remarkably, the number of HotPicks winners (24) in the Pick 4 category was the same for the third consecutive draw, which has never happened for any category before.
The number of Pick 3 HotPicks winners was the highest ever for a Wednesday draw.
I matched one number on each of my first, second and fourth tickets and failed to match anything on my third ticket, so no chance of a profit from my £4 then.
Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 7th April 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #710 (Saturday 12th October 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #708 (Saturday 5th October 2002) [No jackpot winners]

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