UK National Lotto #1960

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 4th October 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	£2,150,196	2	£4,300,392	33.4%
5+bonus	£28,604	12	£343,248	2.7%
5 match	£832	350	£291,200	2.2%
4 match	£98	15,665	£1,535,170	11.9%
3 match	£25	256,715	£6,417,875	49.8%
Sub-totals	272,744		£12,887,885	92.7% of prizes
Raffle	£20,000	50	£1,000,000	7.2% of prizes
Totals		272,794	£13,887,885	100.0% of prizes
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		4.7% fall	£30,361,124	65.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.2% fall	£15,715,902	34.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		3.2% fall	£46,077,026

Lotto HotPicks #1278 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	15	£105,000	11.8%
Pick 3	£450	1,063	£478,350	53.6%
Pick 2	£40	7,106	£284,240	31.8%
Pick 1	£5	4,943	£24,715	2.8%
Totals	13,127		£892,305	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £67.97.

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	24	247	34	281	7	76	7
2nd	34	241	40	281	5	24	5
3rd	04	232	46	278	1	36	1
4th	18	242	30	272	1	25	1
5th	36	230	39	269	11	39	11
6th	48	251	36	287	3	33	3
Bonus	10	246	33	279	31	16	16
Total	174	1689	258	1947	59	249	44
Avg.	24.9	241.3	36.9	278.1	8.4	35.6	6.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £47.25. One in every 55.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.80% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £21,400,452.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 36 wins totalling £390.

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 2nd April 2015 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1961 (Wednesday 8th October 2014) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1959 (Wednesday 1st October 2014) [1 jackpot winner]

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