UK National Lotto #868

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 17th April 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,778,609	2	£5,557,218	33.0%
5+bonus	£100,583	17	£1,709,911	10.2%
5 match	£2,298	465	£1,068,570	6.4%
4 match	£77	30,437	£2,343,649	13.9%
3 match	£10	614,397	£6,143,970	36.5%
Totals	645,318		£16,823,318	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		6.3% fall	£37,402,070	55.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		45.7% rise	£30,152,183	44.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		11.4% rise	£67,554,253

Lotto HotPicks #186 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	13	£91,000	11.8%
Pick 3	£450	626	£281,700	36.6%
Pick 2	£40	9,912	£396,480	51.6%
Totals	10,551		£769,180	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £72.90.

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	48	113	14	127	8	199	8
2nd	31	116	24	140	18	33	18
3rd	03	103	19	122	1	41	1
4th	21	94	24	118	6	43	6
5th	42	97	18	115	8	24	8
6th	47	122	19	141	2	15	2
Bonus	34	102	18	120	2	229	2
Total	226	747	136	883	45	584	45
Avg.	32.3	106.7	19.4	126.1	6.4	83.4	6.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £26.07. One in every 58.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.73% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,903,856.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £197.

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 October 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #869 (Wednesday 21st April 2004) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #867 (Wednesday 14th April 2004) [1 jackpot winner]

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