UK National Lotto #996 (Super Draw #66)

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 9th July 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot    £15,000,000           1   £15,000,000      55.4%
5+bonus       £184,515          10    £1,845,150       6.8%
5 match         £2,059         560    £1,153,040       4.2%
4 match            £77      32,724    £2,519,748       9.3%
3 match            £10     657,345    £6,573,450      24.3%
Totals                     690,640   £27,091,388     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      9.5% rise   £40,234,750     60.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     27.1% rise   £26,062,624     39.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     15.8% rise   £66,297,374   

Lotto HotPicks #314 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           14        £98,000      11.1%
Pick 3              £450          759       £341,550      38.6%
Pick 2               £40       11,129       £445,160      50.3%
Totals                         11,902       £884,710     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       22       117      24      141      15      102       15 
2nd       37       110      25      135       7        6        6 
3rd       07       124      16      140       3        2        2 
4th       20        96      27      123      11        1        1 
5th       23       137      20      157       3       22        3 
6th       34       115      20      135       8        4        4 
Bonus     38       153      25      178       2      134        2 
Total    181       852     157     1009      49      271       33
Avg.      25.9     121.7    22.4    144.1     7.0     38.7      4.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 3 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £39.23. One in every 58.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.72% of players).
• This was the 66th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £15,000,000.
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £2,608,115.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £216.
• 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 5th January 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #997 (Wednesday 13th July 2005) [No jackpot winners]
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