UK National Lotto #1038

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 3rd December 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£815,430	6	£4,892,580	30.6%
5+bonus	£136,855	11	£1,505,405	9.4%
5 match	£1,325	710	£940,750	5.9%
4 match	£55	37,437	£2,059,035	12.8%
3 match	£10	660,759	£6,607,590	41.3%
Totals	698,923		£16,005,360	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		7.3% fall	£35,591,995	64.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.6% rise	£19,589,636	35.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.7% fall	£55,181,631

Lotto HotPicks #356 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	1	£130,000	9.5%
Pick 4	£7,000	20	£140,000	10.3%
Pick 3	£450	1,111	£499,950	36.6%
Pick 2	£40	13,212	£528,480	38.7%
Pick 1	£5	13,507	£67,535	4.9%
Totals	27,851		£1,365,965	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £49.05.

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	47	145	22	167	6	40	6
2nd	02	129	18	147	10	29	10
3rd	28	130	27	157	2	4	2
4th	11	139	22	161	20	18	18
5th	10	134	20	154	4	112	4
6th	36	120	24	144	3	23	3
Bonus	33	133	26	159	3	7	3
Total	167	930	159	1089	48	233	46
Avg.	23.9	132.9	22.7	155.6	6.9	33.3	6.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £22.90. One in every 50.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.96% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,033,593.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 29 wins totalling £290.

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 BST on Thursday 1st June 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1039 (Wednesday 7th December 2005) [6 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1037 (Wednesday 30th November 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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