UK National Lotto #981

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 18th May 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,258,381	2	£2,516,762	27.5%
5+bonus	£70,398	11	£774,378	8.4%
5 match	£1,117	433	£483,661	5.3%
4 match	£42	24,880	£1,044,960	11.4%
3 match	£10	433,867	£4,338,670	47.4%
Totals	459,193		£9,158,431	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		19.9% fall	£20,396,883

Lotto HotPicks #299 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	22	£154,000	14.5%
Pick 3	£450	955	£429,750	40.6%
Pick 2	£40	11,889	£475,560	44.9%
Totals	12,866		£1,059,310	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £82.33.

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	04	110	15	125	36	108	36
2nd	28	127	25	152	15	72	15
3rd	47	137	20	157	5	61	5
4th	22	116	24	140	1	87	1
5th	27	127	15	142	8	17	8
6th	19	126	8	134	21	32	21
Bonus	41	98	22	120	4	9	4
Total	188	841	129	970	90	386	90
Avg.	26.9	120.1	18.4	138.6	12.9	55.1	12.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.94. One in every 44.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.25% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,707,308.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 19 wins totalling £190.

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 14th November 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #982 (Saturday 21st May 2005) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #980 (Saturday 14th May 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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