UK National Lotto #1016

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 17th September 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,634,670	2	£5,269,340	32.7%
5+bonus	£108,089	15	£1,621,335	10.1%
5 match	£1,499	676	£1,013,324	6.3%
4 match	£68	32,377	£2,201,636	13.6%
3 match	£10	601,899	£6,018,990	37.3%
Totals	634,969		£16,124,625	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.9% fall	£35,894,081	64.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.9% fall	£19,909,112	35.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.9% fall	£55,803,193

Lotto HotPicks #334 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	17	£119,000	13.1%
Pick 3	£450	829	£373,050	41.2%
Pick 2	£40	10,344	£413,760	45.7%
Totals	11,190		£905,810	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £80.95.

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	21	109	29	138	5	65	5
2nd	40	134	14	148	7	11	7
3rd	46	122	21	143	2	38	2
4th	09	125	27	152	14	34	14
5th	31	135	28	163	9	23	9
6th	23	139	21	160	6	19	6
Bonus	08	119	26	145	2	12	2
Total	178	883	166	1049	45	202	45
Avg.	25.4	126.1	23.7	149.9	6.4	28.9	6.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.39. 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 £9,141,065.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £301.

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 16th March 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1017 (Wednesday 21st September 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1015 (Wednesday 14th September 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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