UK National Lotto #938

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 18th December 2004:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,117,972           4    £4,471,888      26.8%
5+bonus        £85,997          16    £1,375,952       8.2%
5 match           £664       1,295      £859,880       5.1%
4 match            £36      51,958    £1,870,488      11.2%
3 match            £10     812,913    £8,129,130      48.7%
Totals                     866,186   £16,707,338     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.2% rise   £37,175,366     64.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.8% rise   £20,624,309     35.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.1% rise   £57,799,675   

Lotto HotPicks #256 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           43       £301,000      15.2%
Pick 3              £450        2,049       £922,050      46.7%
Pick 2               £40       18,781       £751,240      38.1%
Totals                         20,873     £1,974,290     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       25       132      24      156       1       51        1 
2nd       05       111      19      130      13       64       13 
3rd       16       102      20      122       3       21        3 
4th       27       120      14      134       2       27        2 
5th       30       116      21      137      20       58       20 
6th       22       108      24      132      10       44       10 
Bonus     33       117      23      140      13       75       13 
Total    158       806     145      951      62      340       62
Avg.      22.6     115.1    20.7    135.9     8.9     48.6      8.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Garnet machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.29. One in every 42.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.33% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,239,682.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 22 wins totalling £298.
• 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 16th June 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #939 (Wednesday 22nd December 2004) [1 jackpot winner]
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