UK National Lotto #1018 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 24th September 2005:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 160th single rollover draw and the 178th rollover in total, included £3,078,821 (38.4%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £4,948,939 (61.6%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,006,940	4	£8,027,760	39.5%
5+bonus	£69,215	22	£1,522,730	7.5%
5 match	£983	968	£951,544	4.7%
4 match	£44	46,809	£2,059,596	10.1%
3 match	£10	776,009	£7,760,090	38.2%
Totals	823,812		£20,321,720	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		7.0% rise	£38,393,973	65.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.4% fall	£19,824,003	34.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.3% rise	£58,217,976

Lotto HotPicks #336 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	30	£210,000	17.5%
Pick 3	£450	1,076	£484,200	40.3%
Pick 2	£40	12,688	£507,520	42.2%
Totals	13,794		£1,201,720	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £87.12.

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	29	121	25	146	18	15	15
2nd	11	138	21	159	10	86	10
3rd	27	130	15	145	4	54	4
4th	02	127	18	145	1	9	1
5th	44	147	18	165	9	7	7
6th	36	118	24	142	6	3	3
Bonus	15	113	19	132	3	11	3
Total	164	894	140	1034	51	185	43
Avg.	23.4	127.7	20.0	147.7	7.3	26.4	6.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.67. One in every 46.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.15% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,441,054.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £233.

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 23rd March 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1019 (Wednesday 28th September 2005) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1017 (Wednesday 21st September 2005) [No jackpot winners]

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