UK National Lotto #1730

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 21st July 2012:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£4,522,902	1	£4,522,902	35.4%
5+bonus	£139,166	10	£1,391,660	10.9%
5 match	£2,743	317	£869,531	6.8%
4 match	£95	19,978	£1,897,910	14.9%
3 match	£10	408,097	£4,080,970	32.0%
Totals	428,403		£12,762,973	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		3.4% fall	£28,397,467	60.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		18.0% rise	£18,329,156	39.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.0% rise	£46,726,623

Lotto HotPicks #1048 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	10	£70,000	10.0%
Pick 3	£450	746	£335,700	48.0%
Pick 2	£40	6,729	£269,160	38.5%
Pick 1	£5	4,940	£24,700	3.5%
Totals	12,425		£699,560	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £56.30.

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	209	34	243	2	25	2
2nd	41	186	31	217	13	6	6
3rd	20	170	49	219	13	20	13
4th	05	199	35	234	4	8	4
5th	14	196	38	234	5	80	5
6th	40	234	26	260	1	28	1
Bonus	08	199	42	241	21	43	21
Total	170	1393	255	1648	59	210	52
Avg.	24.3	199.0	36.4	235.4	8.4	30.0	7.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £29.79. One in every 66.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.51% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,704,633.

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 week expired at 5.30pm GMT on Thursday 17th January 2013 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1731 (Wednesday 25th July 2012) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1729 (Wednesday 18th July 2012) [1 jackpot winner]

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