UK National Lotto #1961

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 8th 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	£2,263,686	1	£2,263,686	34.6%
5+bonus	£36,137	5	£180,685	2.8%
5 match	£1,504	102	£153,408	2.3%
4 match	£126	6,412	£807,912	12.3%
3 match	£25	125,751	£3,143,775	48.0%
Sub-totals	132,271		£6,549,466	86.7% of prizes
Raffle	£20,000	50	£1,000,000	13.2% of prizes
Totals		132,321	£7,549,466	100.0% of prizes
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		1.8% fall	£15,429,576

Lotto HotPicks #1279 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	1	£130,000	17.4%
Pick 4	£7,000	5	£35,000	4.7%
Pick 3	£450	754	£339,300	45.4%
Pick 2	£40	5,578	£223,120	29.9%
Pick 1	£5	3,939	£19,695	2.6%
Totals	10,277		£747,115	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £72.70.

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	28	236	42	278	19	18	18
2nd	34	242	40	282	1	25	1
3rd	27	255	36	291	10	67	10
4th	04	233	46	279	1	37	1
5th	43	255	46	301	8	5	5
6th	29	238	46	284	4	55	4
Bonus	20	204	50	254	3	251	3
Total	185	1663	306	1969	46	458	42
Avg.	26.4	237.6	43.7	281.3	6.6	65.4	6.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £49.52. One in every 58.3 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 £23,141,257.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 39 wins totalling £569.

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 draw expired at 5.30pm BST on Monday 6th April 2015 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1962 (Saturday 11th October 2014) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1960 (Saturday 4th October 2014) [2 jackpot winners]

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