UK National Lotto #1042

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 17th December 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£530,969	8	£4,247,752	26.6%
5+bonus	£39,606	33	£1,306,998	8.2%
5 match	£681	1,198	£815,838	5.1%
4 match	£36	49,493	£1,781,748	11.2%
3 match	£10	779,954	£7,799,540	48.9%
Totals	830,686		£15,951,876	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.1% rise	£35,485,098	65.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.0% fall	£19,148,640	35.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.3% fall	£54,633,738

Lotto HotPicks #360 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	42	£294,000	14.9%
Pick 3	£450	2,031	£913,950	46.3%
Pick 2	£40	17,461	£698,440	35.4%
Pick 1	£5	13,315	£66,575	3.4%
Totals	32,849		£1,972,965	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £60.06.

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	146	22	168	4	44	4
2nd	15	116	19	135	11	24	11
3rd	35	132	22	154	25	56	25
4th	11	141	22	163	3	22	3
5th	21	113	29	142	12	91	12
6th	07	134	17	151	1	6	1
Bonus	43	150	22	172	23	83	23
Total	179	932	153	1085	79	326	79
Avg.	25.6	133.1	21.9	155.0	11.3	46.6	11.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.20. One in every 42.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.34% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,689,544.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 20 wins totalling £215.

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 15th June 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1043 (Wednesday 21st December 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1041 (Wednesday 14th December 2005) [3 jackpot winners]

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