UK National Lotto #1043

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 21st December 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,481,932	1	£2,481,932	28.3%
5+bonus	£58,743	13	£763,659	8.7%
5 match	£1,363	350	£477,050	5.5%
4 match	£47	22,017	£1,034,799	11.8%
3 match	£10	400,175	£4,001,750	45.7%
Totals	422,556		£8,759,190	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		1.8% rise	£19,499,325

Lotto HotPicks #361 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	17	£119,000	11.9%
Pick 3	£450	880	£396,000	39.7%
Pick 2	£40	10,883	£435,320	43.6%
Pick 1	£5	9,560	£47,800	4.8%
Totals	21,340		£998,120	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £46.77.

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	13	109	13	122	11	8	8
2nd	05	120	19	139	15	169	15
3rd	45	134	25	159	6	30	6
4th	31	138	29	167	3	18	3
5th	06	128	25	153	23	58	23
6th	12	133	19	152	4	165	4
Bonus	24	117	21	138	9	121	9
Total	136	879	151	1030	71	569	68
Avg.	19.4	125.6	21.6	147.1	10.1	81.3	9.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.73. One in every 46.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.17% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,514,040.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 20 wins totalling £200.

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 19th June 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1044 (Saturday 24th December 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1042 (Saturday 17th December 2005) [8 jackpot winners]

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