UK National Lotto #944 (Super Draw #63)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 8th January 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,000,000	5	£15,000,000	50.3%
5+bonus	£77,112	20	£1,542,240	5.2%
5 match	£767	1,256	£963,352	3.2%
4 match	£34	62,206	£2,115,004	7.1%
3 match	£10	1,021,234	£10,212,340	34.2%
Totals	1,084,721		£29,832,936	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		14.0% rise	£44,114,366	68.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.5% rise	£20,806,078	32.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		9.3% rise	£64,920,444

Lotto HotPicks #262 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	45	£315,000	16.3%
Pick 3	£450	1,856	£835,200	43.1%
Pick 2	£40	19,629	£785,160	40.6%
Totals	21,530		£1,935,360	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £89.89.

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	29	111	22	133	18	3	3
2nd	10	125	20	145	12	18	12
3rd	17	111	21	132	25	31	25
4th	33	118	23	141	19	6	6
5th	28	123	25	148	14	35	14
6th	07	118	15	133	7	43	7
Bonus	36	109	22	131	4	38	4
Total	160	815	148	963	99	174	71
Avg.	22.9	116.4	21.1	137.6	14.1	24.9	10.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Garnet machine and the average main Lotto prize was £27.50. One in every 40.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.46% of players).

This was the 63rd Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £15,000,000.

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,360,248.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £215.

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 7th July 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #945 (Wednesday 12th January 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #943 (Wednesday 5th January 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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