UK National Lotto #1398

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 16th May 2009:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,316,462	3	£3,949,386	27.5%
5+bonus	£67,510	18	£1,215,180	8.4%
5 match	£956	794	£759,064	5.3%
4 match	£40	41,222	£1,648,880	11.5%
3 match	£10	680,182	£6,801,820	47.3%
Totals	722,219		£14,374,330	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.8% fall	£31,992,874	64.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		2.2% rise	£17,720,313	35.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.2% rise	£49,713,187

Lotto HotPicks #716 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	25	£175,000	14.3%
Pick 3	£450	1,323	£595,350	48.6%
Pick 2	£40	10,380	£415,200	33.9%
Pick 1	£5	7,834	£39,170	3.2%
Totals	19,562		£1,224,720	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £62.61.

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	42	174	29	203	2	98	2
2nd	01	167	26	193	3	103	3
3rd	27	176	21	197	15	17	15
4th	09	185	34	219	2	31	2
5th	05	159	26	185	9	1	1
6th	45	172	36	208	5	68	5
Bonus	21	153	38	191	7	12	7
Total	150	1186	210	1396	43	330	35
Avg.	21.4	169.4	30.0	199.4	6.1	47.1	5.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.90. One in every 44.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.26% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,249,688.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 29 wins totalling £532.

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 12th November 2009 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1399 (Wednesday 20th May 2009) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1397 (Wednesday 13th May 2009) [1 jackpot winner]

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