UK National Lotto #1041

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 14th December 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£691,252	3	£2,073,756	24.1%
5+bonus	£79,759	8	£638,072	7.4%
5 match	£762	523	£398,526	4.6%
4 match	£30	29,228	£876,840	10.2%
3 match	£10	462,889	£4,628,890	53.7%
Totals	492,651		£8,616,084	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		1.0% fall	£19,148,640

Lotto HotPicks #359 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	35	£245,000	15.1%
Pick 3	£450	1,715	£771,750	47.7%
Pick 2	£40	13,737	£549,480	33.9%
Pick 1	£5	10,645	£53,225	3.3%
Totals	26,132		£1,619,455	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £61.97.

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	09	128	28	156	7	19	7
2nd	17	120	24	144	20	11	11
3rd	07	133	17	150	4	5	4
4th	40	136	14	150	24	36	24
5th	22	125	24	149	2	147	2
6th	27	132	15	147	5	77	5
Bonus	41	105	23	128	4	60	4
Total	163	879	145	1024	66	355	57
Avg.	23.3	125.6	20.7	146.3	9.4	50.7	8.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.49. One in every 38.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.57% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £11,069,622.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 24 wins totalling £275.

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 BST on Monday 12th June 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1042 (Saturday 17th December 2005) [8 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1040 (Saturday 10th December 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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