UK National Lotto #1542

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 2nd October 2010:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£772,211	6	£4,633,266	32.8%
5+bonus	£109,663	13	£1,425,619	10.1%
5 match	£1,671	533	£890,643	6.3%
4 match	£69	28,331	£1,954,839	13.9%
3 match	£10	520,190	£5,201,900	36.9%
Totals	549,073		£14,106,267	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		2.8% fall	£31,360,060	56.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		40.8% rise	£23,909,010	43.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		12.2% rise	£55,269,070

Lotto HotPicks #860 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	26	£182,000	14.6%
Pick 3	£450	1,272	£572,400	45.8%
Pick 2	£40	11,556	£462,240	37.0%
Pick 1	£5	6,460	£32,300	2.6%
Totals	19,314		£1,248,940	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £64.67.

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	10	192	27	219	7	42	7
2nd	26	184	30	214	7	56	7
3rd	32	201	21	222	1	21	1
4th	16	170	27	197	4	18	4
5th	40	206	22	228	5	141	5
6th	25	208	41	249	1	74	1
Bonus	46	181	30	211	5	58	5
Total	195	1342	198	1540	30	410	30
Avg.	27.9	191.7	28.3	220.0	4.3	58.6	4.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.69. One in every 57.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.75% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,057,966.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 23 wins totalling £446.

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 31st March 2011 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1543 (Wednesday 6th October 2010) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1541 (Wednesday 29th September 2010) [4 jackpot winners]

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