UK National Lotto #1546

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 16th October 2010:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,129,232	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£121,401	13	£1,578,213	17.6%
5 match	£2,778	355	£986,190	11.0%
4 match	£103	21,050	£2,168,150	24.1%
3 match	£10	424,795	£4,247,950	47.3%
Totals	446,213		£8,980,503	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.5% rise	£31,359,684	64.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.7% rise	£17,373,558	35.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.6% rise	£48,733,242

Lotto HotPicks #864 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	6	£42,000	6.4%
Pick 3	£450	699	£314,550	48.1%
Pick 2	£40	6,685	£267,400	40.9%
Pick 1	£5	5,937	£29,685	4.6%
Totals	13,327		£653,635	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £49.05.

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	30	197	31	228	3	33	3
2nd	34	183	32	215	11	12	11
3rd	06	195	39	234	31	11	11
4th	48	191	26	217	11	167	11
5th	38	218	47	265	5	95	5
6th	45	190	41	231	22	19	19
Bonus	32	201	22	223	4	25	4
Total	233	1375	238	1613	87	362	64
Avg.	33.3	196.4	34.0	230.4	12.4	51.7	9.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.13. One in every 70.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.42% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,352,623.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 36 wins totalling £713.

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 14th April 2011 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1547 (Wednesday 20th October 2010) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1545 (Wednesday 13th October 2010) [2 jackpot winners]

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