UK National Lotto #1668

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 17th December 2011:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£4,672,310	1	£4,672,310	36.0%
5+bonus	£143,763	10	£1,437,630	11.1%
5 match	£2,523	356	£898,188	6.9%
4 match	£97	20,260	£1,965,220	15.2%
3 match	£10	398,894	£3,988,940	30.8%
Totals	419,521		£12,962,288	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		15.5% fall	£28,831,452	64.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		19.7% fall	£15,846,578	35.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		17.1% fall	£44,678,030

Lotto HotPicks #986 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	12	£84,000	13.3%
Pick 3	£450	663	£298,350	47.1%
Pick 2	£40	5,632	£225,280	35.6%
Pick 1	£5	5,056	£25,280	4.0%
Totals	11,363		£632,910	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £55.70.

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	42	200	32	232	27	33	27
2nd	01	193	33	226	4	16	4
3rd	35	213	33	246	4	29	4
4th	48	210	28	238	4	40	4
5th	39	218	21	239	2	42	2
6th	22	194	32	226	7	72	7
Bonus	12	200	38	238	9	120	9
Total	199	1428	217	1645	57	352	57
Avg.	28.4	204.0	31.0	235.0	8.1	50.3	8.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.90. One in every 68.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.46% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,591,391.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 40 wins totalling £908.

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 14th June 2012 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1669 (Wednesday 21st December 2011) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1667 (Wednesday 14th December 2011) [1 jackpot winner]

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