UK National Lotto #1042

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 17th December 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot       £530,969           8    £4,247,752      26.6%
5+bonus        £39,606          33    £1,306,998       8.2%
5 match           £681       1,198      £815,838       5.1%
4 match            £36      49,493    £1,781,748      11.2%
3 match            £10     779,954    £7,799,540      48.9%
Totals                     830,686   £15,951,876     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.1% rise   £35,485,098     65.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.0% fall   £19,148,640     35.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.3% fall   £54,633,738   

Lotto HotPicks #360 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           42       £294,000      14.9%
Pick 3              £450        2,031       £913,950      46.3%
Pick 2               £40       17,461       £698,440      35.4%
Pick 1                £5       13,315        £66,575       3.4%
Totals                         32,849     £1,972,965     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       47       146      22      168       4       44        4 
2nd       15       116      19      135      11       24       11 
3rd       35       132      22      154      25       56       25 
4th       11       141      22      163       3       22        3 
5th       21       113      29      142      12       91       12 
6th       07       134      17      151       1        6        1 
Bonus     43       150      22      172      23       83       23 
Total    179       932     153     1085      79      326       79
Avg.      25.6     133.1    21.9    155.0    11.3     46.6     11.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.20. One in every 42.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.34% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,689,544.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 20 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 15th June 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #1043 (Wednesday 21st December 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
  Previous Lotto: #1041 (Wednesday 14th December 2005) [3 jackpot winners]

  

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