UK National Lotto #1878

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 21st December 2013:

50 £20,000 raffle winning tickets: (Check)

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£4,439,965	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£25,313	14	£354,382	3.6%
5 match	£1,013	297	£300,861	3.1%
4 match	£91	17,368	£1,580,488	16.1%
3 match	£25	302,938	£7,573,450	77.2%
Sub-totals	320,617		£9,809,181	90.7% of prizes
Raffle	£20,000	50	£1,000,000	9.2% of prizes
Totals		320,667	£10,809,181	100.0% of prizes
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.1% fall	£33,576,984	61.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		28.4% rise	£21,291,084	38.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		8.6% rise	£54,868,068

Lotto HotPicks #1196 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	14	£98,000	10.6%
Pick 3	£450	1,051	£472,950	51.0%
Pick 2	£40	8,217	£328,680	35.4%
Pick 1	£5	5,529	£27,645	3.0%
Totals	14,811		£927,275	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	40	253	28	281	1	131	1
2nd	33	249	42	291	13	17	13
3rd	28	225	40	265	4	75	4
4th	18	230	29	259	3	31	3
5th	12	233	40	273	4	73	4
6th	25	247	45	292	1	4	1
Bonus	17	226	39	265	4	165	4
Total	173	1663	263	1926	30	496	30
Avg.	24.7	237.6	37.6	275.1	4.3	70.9	4.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.59. One in every 52.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.91% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £20,837,021.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 38 wins totalling £510.

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 June 2014 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1879 (Wednesday 25th December 2013) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1877 (Wednesday 18th December 2013) [1 jackpot winner]

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