UK National Lotto #978

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 7th May 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £5,856,652           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus       £180,204          10    £1,802,040      16.9%
5 match         £2,607         432    £1,126,224      10.5%
4 match            £94      26,329    £2,474,926      23.2%
3 match            £10     527,318    £5,273,180      49.4%
Totals                     554,089   £10,676,370     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      8.6% fall   £36,746,606     64.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.2% fall   £19,903,381     35.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      6.1% fall   £56,649,987   

Lotto HotPicks #296 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           13        £91,000      12.5%
Pick 3              £450          656       £295,200      40.4%
Pick 2               £40        8,589       £343,560      47.1%
Totals                          9,258       £729,760     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       34       110      19      129      10       43       10 
2nd       35       125      21      146       1        5        1 
3rd       49       115      17      132       9      117        9 
4th       06       122      24      146      14        7        7 
5th       02       122      16      138       2       64        2 
6th       21       104      29      133      12       27       12 
Bonus     46       119      21      140      28        1        1 
Total    193       817     147      964      76      264       42
Avg.      27.6     116.7    21.0    137.7    10.9     37.7      6.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 5 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.27. One in every 66.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.51% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,440,778.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £253.
• 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 GMT on Thursday 3rd November 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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