UK National Lotto #1040

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 10th December 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £5,382,733           1    £5,382,733      33.8%
5+bonus        £97,425          17    £1,656,225      10.4%
5 match         £2,424         427    £1,035,048       6.5%
4 match            £84      27,048    £2,272,032      14.2%
3 match            £10     560,156    £5,601,560      35.1%
Totals                     587,649   £15,947,598     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.4% fall   £35,451,044     64.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.3% fall   £19,339,851     35.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.7% fall   £54,790,895   

Lotto HotPicks #358 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           26       £182,000      14.2%
Pick 3              £450        1,025       £461,250      36.1%
Pick 2               £40       14,149       £565,960      44.3%
Pick 1                £5       13,899        £69,495       5.4%
Totals                         29,099     £1,278,705     100.0%

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       30       137      23      160       7       26        7 
2nd       20       102      28      130      14        7        7 
3rd       23       143      22      165       9       13        9 
4th       48       136      15      151      11      128       11 
5th       31       137      29      166      20       15       15 
6th       25       147      28      175       8       23        8 
Bonus     10       134      21      155       2      114        2 
Total    187       936     166     1102      71      326       59
Avg.      26.7     133.7    23.7    157.4    10.1     46.6      8.4

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £27.14. One in every 60.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.66% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,275,486.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £222.
• 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 8th June 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #1041 (Wednesday 14th December 2005) [3 jackpot winners]
  Previous Lotto: #1039 (Wednesday 7th December 2005) [6 jackpot winners]

  

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