UK National Lotto #981

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 18th May 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,258,381           2    £2,516,762      27.5%
5+bonus        £70,398          11      £774,378       8.4%
5 match         £1,117         433      £483,661       5.3%
4 match            £42      24,880    £1,044,960      11.4%
3 match            £10     433,867    £4,338,670      47.4%
Totals                     459,193    £9,158,431     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            19.9% fall   £20,396,883   

Lotto HotPicks #299 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           22       £154,000      14.5%
Pick 3              £450          955       £429,750      40.6%
Pick 2               £40       11,889       £475,560      44.9%
Totals                         12,866     £1,059,310     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       04       110      15      125      36      108       36 
2nd       28       127      25      152      15       72       15 
3rd       47       137      20      157       5       61        5 
4th       22       116      24      140       1       87        1 
5th       27       127      15      142       8       17        8 
6th       19       126       8      134      21       32       21 
Bonus     41        98      22      120       4        9        4 
Total    188       841     129      970      90      386       90
Avg.      26.9     120.1    18.4    138.6    12.9     55.1     12.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 5 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.94. One in every 44.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.25% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,707,308.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 19 wins totalling £190.
• 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 draw expired at 5.30pm GMT on Monday 14th November 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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