UK National Lotto #706

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 28th September 2002:

02 09 10 11 13 16 (26)

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,855,501           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus        £74,700          20    £1,494,000      11.6%
5 match           £984         948      £932,832       7.2%
4 match            £42      48,216    £2,025,072      15.7%
3 match            £10     845,477    £8,454,770      65.5%
Totals                     894,661   £12,906,674     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.3% fall   £39,538,386     64.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     23.9% fall   £22,272,699     36.0% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     10.3% fall   £61,811,085

Lotto HotPicks #24 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           49       £343,000      13.8%
Pick 3              £450        2,494     £1,122,300      45.3%
Pick 2               £40       25,375     £1,015,000      40.9%
Totals                         27,918     £2,480,300     100.0%
Ticket sales                         £3,619,203

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £88.84 and one in every 129.0 Lotto HotPicks tickets won a prize (=0.77% of players).

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       10        88      15      103      15       19       15 
2nd       09        90      20      110       9       24        9 
3rd       11        93      16      109       2        8        2 
4th       13        69      11       80       2        7        2 
5th       02        94      13      107       7       49        7 
6th       16        75      14       89      14       79       14 
Bonus     26        81      16       97      10       57       10 
Total     87       590     105      695      59      243       59
Avg.      12.4      84.3    15.0     99.3     8.4     34.7      8.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 12 in the Galahad machine and the average main Lotto prize was £14.43. One in every 44.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.26% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,220,723.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 8 wins totalling £141.
The 69th main number appearance of the number 13 has moved it to within two of the rest of the pack at the basement of the appropriate frequency table. It is now also only four adrift at the bottom of the winning number frequency table after its 80th such appearance.
This draw had the second lowest sum of the 6 main numbers to date and also the outright narrowest main number range (14=16-2) ever.
When sorted in ascending order, the 6th main number (16) was the lowest such number ever in that position.
The average main Lotto prize was the second lowest of all time.
I matched one number on my first ticket and nothing on my second ticket (back to my losing ways, in other words), but at least the surprising lack of a jackpot winner [despite the near-record low numbers] was some food for comfort.
Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 27th March 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #707 (Wednesday 2nd October 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #705 (Wednesday 25th September 2002) [1 jackpot winner]

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