UK National Lotto #974

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 23rd April 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot       £684,008           7    £4,788,056      28.9%
5+bonus        £70,154          21    £1,473,234       8.9%
5 match         £1,024         899      £920,576       5.6%
4 match            £47      42,653    £2,004,691      12.1%
3 match            £10     737,417    £7,374,170      44.5%
Totals                     780,997   £16,560,727     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)     10.0% fall   £36,848,823     64.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.2% rise   £20,354,057     35.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      6.6% fall   £57,202,880   

Lotto HotPicks #292 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           39       £273,000      18.5%
Pick 3              £450        1,359       £611,550      41.6%
Pick 2               £40       14,673       £586,920      39.9%
Totals                         16,071     £1,471,470     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       31       131      25      156       7       44        7 
2nd       43       139      21      160       1       15        1 
3rd       25       139      26      165       2       20        2 
4th       18       121      15      136       6       64        6 
5th       29       115      23      138       6       12        6 
6th       03       117      20      137      11       86       11 
Bonus     23       133      20      153       3       37        3 
Total    172       895     150     1045      36      278       36
Avg.      24.6     127.9    21.4    149.3     5.1     39.7      5.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 5 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.20. One in every 47.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.12% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,338,324.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £180.
• 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 20th October 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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