UK National Lotto #1040

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 10th December 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,382,733	1	£5,382,733	33.8%
5+bonus	£97,425	17	£1,656,225	10.4%
5 match	£2,424	427	£1,035,048	6.5%
4 match	£84	27,048	£2,272,032	14.2%
3 match	£10	560,156	£5,601,560	35.1%
Totals	587,649		£15,947,598	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.4% fall	£35,451,044	64.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.3% fall	£19,339,851	35.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.7% fall	£54,790,895

Lotto HotPicks #358 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	26	£182,000	14.2%
Pick 3	£450	1,025	£461,250	36.1%
Pick 2	£40	14,149	£565,960	44.3%
Pick 1	£5	13,899	£69,495	5.4%
Totals	29,099		£1,278,705	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £43.94.

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	30	137	23	160	7	26	7
2nd	20	102	28	130	14	7	7
3rd	23	143	22	165	9	13	9
4th	48	136	15	151	11	128	11
5th	31	137	29	166	20	15	15
6th	25	147	28	175	8	23	8
Bonus	10	134	21	155	2	114	2
Total	187	936	166	1102	71	326	59
Avg.	26.7	133.7	23.7	157.4	10.1	46.6	8.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £27.14. One in every 60.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.66% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,275,486.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £222.

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 BST on Thursday 8th June 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1041 (Wednesday 14th December 2005) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1039 (Wednesday 7th December 2005) [6 jackpot winners]

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