UK National Lotto #1008

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 20th August 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,481,086	3	£4,443,258	27.2%
5+bonus	£113,929	12	£1,367,148	8.4%
5 match	£1,035	825	£853,875	5.2%
4 match	£43	43,616	£1,875,488	11.5%
3 match	£10	779,885	£7,798,850	47.7%
Totals	824,341		£16,338,619	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.9% fall	£36,319,060	64.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.6% fall	£20,337,187	35.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.1% fall	£56,656,247

Lotto HotPicks #326 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	38	£266,000	15.1%
Pick 3	£450	1,571	£706,950	40.2%
Pick 2	£40	19,655	£786,200	44.7%
Totals	21,264		£1,759,150	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £82.73.

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	20	97	27	124	12	13	12
2nd	44	145	17	162	2	7	2
3rd	11	137	21	158	19	76	19
4th	12	129	19	148	7	130	7
5th	38	155	25	180	10	12	10
6th	07	127	16	143	4	14	4
Bonus	45	128	24	152	6	77	6
Total	177	918	149	1067	60	329	60
Avg.	25.3	131.1	21.3	152.4	8.6	47.0	8.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.82. One in every 44.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.27% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,947,927.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £170.

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 16th February 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1009 (Wednesday 24th August 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1007 (Wednesday 17th August 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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