UK National Lotto #1981 (Quadruple Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 17th December 2014:

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

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 4th quadruple rollover draw and the 436th rollover in total

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£15,010,730	0	£0	0.0%
5+bonus	£3,062,272	5	£15,311,360	70.3%
5 match	£1,350	189	£255,150	1.2%
4 match	£129	10,438	£1,346,502	6.2%
3 match	£25	194,227	£4,855,675	22.3%
Sub-totals	204,859		£21,768,687	95.6% of prizes
Raffle	£20,000	50	£1,000,000	4.3% of prizes
Totals		204,909	£22,768,687	100.0% of prizes
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		30.0% rise	£24,789,248

Lotto HotPicks #1299 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	8	£56,000	10.0%
Pick 3	£450	628	£282,600	50.6%
Pick 2	£40	4,974	£198,960	35.6%
Pick 1	£5	4,198	£20,990	3.8%
Totals	9,808		£558,550	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £56.95.

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	19	243	37	280	3	51	3
2nd	33	262	45	307	1	44	1
3rd	46	230	39	269	23	59	23
4th	02	236	34	270	7	28	7
5th	35	257	40	297	4	42	4
6th	24	250	34	284	16	97	16
Bonus	12	243	42	285	27	67	27
Total	171	1721	271	1992	81	388	81
Avg.	24.4	245.9	38.7	284.6	11.6	55.4	11.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £106.26. One in every 60.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.65% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,453,640.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 41 wins totalling £519.

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 15th June 2015 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1982 (Saturday 20th December 2014) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1980 (Saturday 13th December 2014) [No jackpot winners]

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