UK National Lotto #1426

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 22nd August 2009:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,588,768           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus        £83,054          17    £1,411,918      14.9%
5 match         £2,111         418      £882,398       9.3%
4 match            £70      27,515    £1,926,050      20.3%
3 match            £10     526,701    £5,267,010      55.5%
Totals                     554,651    £9,487,376     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.3% fall   £31,314,587     64.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.8% fall   £17,247,858     35.5% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.5% fall   £48,562,445   

Lotto HotPicks #744 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           17       £119,000      13.1%
Pick 3              £450          808       £363,600      40.2%
Pick 2               £40        9,736       £389,440      43.1%
Pick 1                £5        6,457        £32,285       3.6%
Totals                         17,018       £904,325     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       36       158      30      188       4       73        4 
2nd       18       171      21      192       5       19        5 
3rd       44       190      24      214       5       52        5 
4th       43       189      31      220      15       22       15 
5th       24       175      29      204      18       46       18 
6th       23       192      34      226       1       14        1 
Bonus     21       157      39      196       3       28        3 
Total    209      1232     208     1440      51      254       51
Avg.      29.9     176.0    29.7    205.7     7.3     36.3      7.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.11. One in every 56.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.77% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,245,578.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 24 wins totalling £380.
• 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 GMT on Thursday 18th February 2010 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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