UK National Lotto #999

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 20th July 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,268,465	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£251,420	4	£1,005,680	16.9%
5 match	£2,686	234	£628,524	10.6%
4 match	£87	15,771	£1,372,077	23.0%
3 match	£10	294,852	£2,948,520	49.5%
Totals	310,861		£5,954,801	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		1.3% rise	£20,520,066

Lotto HotPicks #317 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	18	£126,000	22.2%
Pick 3	£450	457	£205,650	36.3%
Pick 2	£40	5,891	£235,640	41.5%
Totals	6,366		£567,290	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £89.11.

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	43	143	21	164	17	40	17
2nd	39	111	13	124	2	32	2
3rd	45	127	23	150	10	68	10
4th	29	119	24	143	6	24	6
5th	41	101	22	123	9	18	9
6th	04	113	16	129	8	10	8
Bonus	42	117	23	140	2	34	2
Total	243	831	142	973	54	226	54
Avg.	34.7	118.7	20.3	139.0	7.7	32.3	7.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.16. One in every 66.0 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 £8,587,079.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 13 wins totalling £195.

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 16th January 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1000 (Saturday 23rd July 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #998 (Saturday 16th July 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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