UK National Lotto #1046

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 31st December 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,601,968	1	£5,601,968	31.6%
5+bonus	£90,720	19	£1,723,680	9.7%
5 match	£1,715	628	£1,077,020	6.1%
4 match	£64	36,469	£2,334,016	13.1%
3 match	£10	700,919	£7,009,190	39.5%
Totals	738,036		£17,745,874	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		20.5% fall	£39,516,012	67.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.2% fall	£19,269,156	32.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		15.0% fall	£58,785,168

Lotto HotPicks #364 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	19	£133,000	12.2%
Pick 3	£450	979	£440,550	40.2%
Pick 2	£40	11,581	£463,240	42.3%
Pick 1	£5	11,558	£57,790	5.3%
Totals	24,137		£1,094,580	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £45.35.

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	33	134	26	160	11	8	8
2nd	06	130	25	155	1	61	1
3rd	36	121	24	145	8	31	8
4th	49	125	18	143	15	36	15
5th	11	142	22	164	4	26	4
6th	09	129	28	157	5	24	5
Bonus	29	124	26	150	9	43	9
Total	173	905	169	1074	53	229	50
Avg.	24.7	129.3	24.1	153.4	7.6	32.7	7.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.04. One in every 53.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.87% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,312,208.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £220.

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 29th June 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1047 (Wednesday 4th January 2006) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1045 (Wednesday 28th December 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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