UK National Lotto #1678

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 21st January 2012:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£4,404,007	1	£4,404,007	33.3%
5+bonus	£104,236	13	£1,355,068	10.3%
5 match	£1,657	511	£846,727	6.4%
4 match	£70	26,548	£1,858,360	14.1%
3 match	£10	473,977	£4,739,770	35.9%
Totals	501,050		£13,203,932	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.2% rise	£29,353,369	64.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.3% fall	£15,841,113	35.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.0% rise	£45,194,482

Lotto HotPicks #996 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	8	£56,000	8.0%
Pick 3	£450	732	£329,400	46.8%
Pick 2	£40	7,123	£284,920	40.5%
Pick 1	£5	6,695	£33,475	4.7%
Totals	14,558		£703,795	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £48.34.

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	17	205	36	241	4	88	4
2nd	05	192	34	226	24	70	24
3rd	32	224	24	248	8	95	8
4th	39	220	21	241	3	52	3
5th	49	209	32	241	7	37	7
6th	42	204	32	236	2	43	2
Bonus	19	201	27	228	17	7	7
Total	203	1455	206	1661	65	392	55
Avg.	29.0	207.9	29.4	237.3	9.3	56.0	7.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £26.35. One in every 58.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.71% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,020,623.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 34 wins totalling £388.

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 19th July 2012 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1679 (Wednesday 25th January 2012) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1677 (Wednesday 18th January 2012) [1 jackpot winner]

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