UK National Lotto #729

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 18th December 2002:

11 17 21 22 40 42 (19)

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,018,790           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus       £185,771           5      £928,855      14.0%
5 match         £1,644         353      £580,332       8.7%
4 match            £63      19,963    £1,257,669      18.9%
3 match            £10     388,629    £3,886,290      58.4%
Totals                     408,950    £6,653,146     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.9% rise   £21,537,016

Lotto HotPicks #47 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           21       £147,000      15.3%
Pick 3              £450          847       £381,150      39.5%
Pick 2               £40       10,898       £435,920      45.2%
Totals                         11,766       £964,070     100.0%
Ticket sales                         £2,085,845

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £81.94 and one in every 177.0 Lotto HotPicks tickets won a prize (=0.56% 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       11        97      16      113       1       31        1 
2nd       42        81      13       94       6       44        6 
3rd       21        76      18       94       1       13        1 
4th       17        82      14       96      32       96       32 
5th       40        99       9      108       4      126        4 
6th       22        77      18       95      20       63       20 
Bonus     19        88       6       94       3      146        3 
Total    172       600      94      694      67      519       67
Avg.      24.6      85.7    13.4     99.1     9.6     74.1      9.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Galahad machine and the average main Lotto prize was £16.27. One in every 52.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.90% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,065,753.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 13 wins totalling £186.
The sixth appearance of the number 19 as a bonus ball still keeps it firmly anchored at the bottom of the appropriate frequency table, three adrift from the rest.
Only five ticket combinations have now failed to win in any of the 729 main lotteries to date.
Although the main Lotto's ticket sales rose slightly for this draw, they were still the second worst main Lotto sales of all time.
I matched one number on my first ticket and nothing on my second ticket, so my hopelessly unfruitful run continues.
Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 16th June 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #730 (Saturday 21st December 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #728 (Saturday 14th December 2002) [2 jackpot winners]

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