UK National Lotto #983

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 25th May 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,100,673           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus        £95,405          10      £954,050      15.9%
5 match         £1,602         372      £595,944      10.0%
4 match            £78      16,707    £1,303,146      21.8%
3 match            £10     312,725    £3,127,250      52.3%
Totals                     329,814    £5,980,390     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             1.0% fall   £20,200,184   

Lotto HotPicks #301 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           25       £175,000      22.3%
Pick 3              £450          665       £299,250      38.2%
Pick 2               £40        7,735       £309,400      39.5%
Totals                          8,425       £783,650     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       18       123      15      138       3       73        3 
2nd       33       128      24      152       3       25        3 
3rd       37       108      24      132      26       36       26 
4th       14       115      22      137       1       35        1 
5th       29       117      24      141       4        8        4 
6th       39       109      13      122       7       16        7 
Bonus     47       138      21      159       1       63        1 
Total    217       838     143      981      45      256       45
Avg.      31.0     119.7    20.4    140.1     6.4     36.6      6.4

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 8 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.13. One in every 61.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.63% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,008,986.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 13 wins totalling £176.
• 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 21st November 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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