UK National Lotto #980

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 14th May 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £5,140,514           1    £5,140,514      31.2%
5+bonus        £75,318          21    £1,581,678       9.6%
5 match         £1,240         797      £988,280       6.0%
4 match            £57      38,043    £2,168,451      13.1%
3 match            £10     661,443    £6,614,430      40.1%
Totals                     700,305   £16,493,353     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.2% fall   £36,666,742     59.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     27.9% rise   £25,452,844     41.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      9.7% rise   £62,119,586   

Lotto HotPicks #298 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           31       £217,000      18.6%
Pick 3              £450        1,031       £463,950      39.7%
Pick 2               £40       12,177       £487,080      41.7%
Totals                         13,239     £1,168,030     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       43       141      21      162       1       21        1 
2nd       18       122      15      137       6       70        6 
3rd       33       127      24      151      16       22       16 
4th       12       123      19      142      15      102       15 
5th       48       129      15      144       3       68        3 
6th       22       115      24      139      10       86       10 
Bonus     25       139      27      166       6       26        6 
Total    201       896     145     1041      57      395       57
Avg.      28.7     128.0    20.7    148.7     8.1     56.4      8.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 6 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.55. One in every 52.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.91% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,725,308.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 21 wins totalling £388.
• 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 10th November 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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