UK National Lotto #1498

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 1st May 2010:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£4,599,128	1	£4,599,128	31.7%
5+bonus	£94,341	15	£1,415,115	9.8%
5 match	£1,671	529	£883,959	6.1%
4 match	£64	30,116	£1,927,424	13.3%
3 match	£10	566,250	£5,662,500	39.1%
Totals	596,911		£14,488,126	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.1% rise	£32,237,727	64.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.5% fall	£17,972,122	35.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.5% rise	£50,209,849

Lotto HotPicks #816 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	20	£140,000	11.9%
Pick 3	£450	1,225	£551,250	46.7%
Pick 2	£40	11,302	£452,080	38.3%
Pick 1	£5	7,288	£36,440	3.1%
Totals	19,835		£1,179,770	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £59.48.

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	191	29	220	13	3	3
2nd	29	176	36	212	4	49	4
3rd	28	188	33	221	8	43	8
4th	06	192	38	230	5	41	5
5th	47	191	30	221	7	18	7
6th	15	166	31	197	10	67	10
Bonus	19	184	20	204	1	20	1
Total	174	1288	217	1505	48	241	38
Avg.	24.9	184.0	31.0	215.0	6.9	34.4	5.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.27. One in every 54.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.85% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,927,226.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £180.

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 28th October 2010 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1499 (Wednesday 5th May 2010) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1497 (Wednesday 28th April 2010) [3 jackpot winners]

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