UK National Lotto #1708

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 5th May 2012:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£965,475	4	£3,861,900	29.7%
5+bonus	£99,023	12	£1,188,276	9.1%
5 match	£1,237	600	£742,200	5.7%
4 match	£51	31,518	£1,607,418	12.3%
3 match	£10	563,131	£5,631,310	43.2%
Totals	595,265		£13,031,104	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.6% fall	£29,017,885	64.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		11.2% fall	£15,977,013	35.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		5.2% fall	£44,994,898

Lotto HotPicks #1026 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	31	£217,000	15.8%
Pick 3	£450	1,462	£657,900	47.9%
Pick 2	£40	11,458	£458,320	33.4%
Pick 1	£5	7,952	£39,760	2.9%
Totals	20,903		£1,372,980	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £65.68.

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	26	209	35	244	6	11	6
2nd	40	230	26	256	3	6	3
3rd	27	221	29	250	7	55	7
4th	17	207	37	244	27	17	17
5th	13	183	17	200	3	219	3
6th	04	204	40	244	26	45	26
Bonus	36	196	32	228	15	156	15
Total	163	1450	216	1666	87	509	77
Avg.	23.3	207.1	30.9	238.0	12.4	72.7	11.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.89. One in every 48.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.05% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,263,987.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 33 wins totalling £330.

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 GMT on Thursday 1st November 2012 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1709 (Wednesday 9th May 2012) [5 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1707 (Wednesday 2nd May 2012) [3 jackpot winners]

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