UK National Lotto #1460

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 19th December 2009:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,507,394	2	£5,014,788	35.7%
5+bonus	£308,602	5	£1,543,010	11.0%
5 match	£2,763	349	£964,287	6.9%
4 match	£97	21,794	£2,114,018	15.1%
3 match	£10	439,533	£4,395,330	31.3%
Totals	461,683		£14,031,433	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.2% fall	£31,198,118	64.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.7% fall	£17,431,713	35.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.4% fall	£48,629,831

Lotto HotPicks #778 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	14	£98,000	15.1%
Pick 3	£450	614	£276,300	42.7%
Pick 2	£40	6,141	£245,640	37.9%
Pick 1	£5	5,564	£27,820	4.3%
Totals	12,333		£647,760	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £52.52.

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	01	174	28	202	9	26	9
2nd	28	181	33	214	21	5	5
3rd	20	146	42	188	1	17	1
4th	33	189	32	221	17	39	17
5th	40	195	22	217	1	59	1
6th	45	181	36	217	2	130	2
Bonus	35	186	29	215	1	8	1
Total	202	1252	222	1474	52	284	36
Avg.	28.9	178.9	31.7	210.6	7.4	40.6	5.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.39. One in every 67.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.48% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,748,994.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 24 wins totalling £299.

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 17th June 2010 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1461 (Wednesday 23rd December 2009) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1459 (Wednesday 16th December 2009) [1 jackpot winner]

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