UK National Lotto #1686

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 18th February 2012:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,147,797           2    £4,295,594      32.3%
5+bonus       £132,172          10    £1,321,720       9.9%
5 match         £1,696         487      £825,952       6.2%
4 match            £68      26,504    £1,802,272      13.6%
3 match            £10     504,844    £5,048,440      38.0%
Totals                     531,847   £13,293,978     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.0% fall   £29,576,003     64.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      9.4% fall   £16,202,117     35.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      4.1% fall   £45,778,120   

Lotto HotPicks #1004 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           17       £119,000      13.0%
Pick 3              £450          928       £417,600      45.5%
Pick 2               £40        8,754       £350,160      38.1%
Pick 1                £5        6,286        £31,430       3.4%
Totals                         15,985       £918,190     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       19       202      27      229      25        8        8 
2nd       22       197      32      229       5       90        5 
3rd       30       222      34      256       1       37        1 
4th       33       225      36      261       1       10        1 
5th       41       179      30      209       4       21        4 
6th       02       213      26      239       7       13        7 
Bonus     24       206      32      238       2       52        2 
Total    171      1444     217     1661      45      231       28
Avg.      24.4     206.3    31.0    237.3     6.4     33.0      4.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.00. One in every 55.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.80% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,546,812.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 33 wins totalling £412.
• 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 16th August 2012 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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