UK National Lotto #1956

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 20th September 2014:

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	£3,955,683	1	£3,955,683	30.5%
5+bonus	£45,105	7	£315,735	2.4%
5 match	£800	335	£268,000	2.1%
4 match	£88	16,011	£1,408,968	10.9%
3 match	£25	280,782	£7,019,550	54.1%
Sub-totals	297,136		£12,967,936	92.8% of prizes
Raffle	£20,000	50	£1,000,000	7.1% of prizes
Totals		297,186	£13,967,936	100.0% of prizes
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		14.1% fall	£30,555,462	54.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		36.0% rise	£25,884,244	45.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		3.4% rise	£56,439,706

Lotto HotPicks #1274 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	1	£130,000	13.2%
Pick 4	£7,000	24	£168,000	17.1%
Pick 3	£450	837	£376,650	38.3%
Pick 2	£40	6,995	£279,800	28.5%
Pick 1	£5	5,725	£28,625	2.9%
Totals	13,582		£983,075	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £72.38.

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	22	235	36	271	1	9	1
2nd	06	241	52	293	9	1	1
3rd	26	235	40	275	16	53	16
4th	02	231	34	265	15	3	3
5th	33	258	45	303	10	19	10
6th	48	249	36	285	4	29	4
Bonus	43	254	46	300	3	59	3
Total	180	1703	289	1992	58	173	38
Avg.	25.7	243.3	41.3	284.6	8.3	24.7	5.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £43.64. One in every 51.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.94% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £21,532,090.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 27 wins totalling £285.

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 GMT on Thursday 19th March 2015 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1957 (Wednesday 24th September 2014) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1955 (Wednesday 17th September 2014) [3 jackpot winners]

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