UK National Lotto #897

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 28th July 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,852,742	1	£2,852,742	28.8%
5+bonus	£125,395	7	£877,765	8.9%
5 match	£1,428	384	£548,352	5.5%
4 match	£52	22,898	£1,190,696	12.0%
3 match	£10	444,566	£4,445,660	44.8%
Totals	467,856		£9,915,215	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		1.4% rise	£22,070,450

Lotto HotPicks #215 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	20	£140,000	14.4%
Pick 3	£450	872	£392,400	40.4%
Pick 2	£40	10,975	£439,000	45.2%
Totals	11,867		£971,400	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £81.86.

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	11	121	19	140	3	97	3
2nd	14	101	20	121	23	118	23
3rd	25	125	24	149	7	10	7
4th	21	98	24	122	7	72	7
5th	10	114	19	133	6	58	6
6th	42	103	19	122	11	20	11
Bonus	15	101	17	118	2	79	2
Total	138	763	142	905	59	454	59
Avg.	19.7	109.0	20.3	129.3	8.4	64.9	8.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Pearl machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.19. One in every 47.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.12% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,144,867.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £150.

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 draw expired at 5.30pm GMT on Monday 24th January 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #898 (Saturday 31st July 2004) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #896 (Saturday 24th July 2004) [1 jackpot winner]

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