UK National Lotto #1461

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 23rd December 2009:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,868,480	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£147,101	6	£882,606	16.8%
5 match	£2,677	206	£551,462	10.5%
4 match	£91	13,263	£1,206,933	23.0%
3 match	£10	260,313	£2,603,130	49.7%
Totals	273,788		£5,244,131	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		3.5% rise	£18,043,195

Lotto HotPicks #779 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	1	£130,000	13.4%
Pick 4	£7,000	17	£119,000	12.3%
Pick 3	£450	902	£405,900	41.9%
Pick 2	£40	7,308	£292,320	30.1%
Pick 1	£5	4,511	£22,555	2.3%
Totals	12,739		£969,775	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £76.13.

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	178	21	199	10	54	10
2nd	15	162	31	193	24	30	24
3rd	32	192	20	212	9	52	9
4th	36	167	30	197	4	108	4
5th	37	165	37	202	19	71	19
6th	26	172	29	201	15	56	15
Bonus	22	176	29	205	3	193	3
Total	186	1212	197	1409	84	564	84
Avg.	26.6	173.1	28.1	201.3	12.0	80.6	12.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.15. One in every 65.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.52% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,180,549.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 27 wins totalling £544.

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 21st June 2010 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1462 (Saturday 26th December 2009) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1460 (Saturday 19th December 2009) [2 jackpot winners]

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