UK National Lotto #1982

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 20th December 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	£4,983,828	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£66,300	6	£397,800	4.7%
5 match	£1,705	198	£337,590	3.9%
4 match	£146	12,228	£1,785,288	20.8%
3 match	£25	242,456	£6,061,400	70.6%
Sub-totals	254,888		£8,582,078	89.5% of prizes
Raffle	£20,000	50	£1,000,000	10.4% of prizes
Totals		254,938	£9,582,078	100.0% of prizes
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		8.7% fall	£31,945,292	56.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		30.0% rise	£24,789,248	43.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		5.0% rise	£56,734,540

Lotto HotPicks #1300 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	18	£126,000	15.2%
Pick 3	£450	869	£391,050	47.2%
Pick 2	£40	7,153	£286,120	34.5%
Pick 1	£5	5,163	£25,815	3.1%
Totals	13,203		£828,985	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £62.79.

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	18	245	32	277	2	15	2
2nd	23	268	41	309	4	19	4
3rd	32	242	32	274	20	71	20
4th	42	240	39	279	3	18	3
5th	40	267	34	301	4	10	4
6th	22	239	36	275	8	35	8
Bonus	28	240	44	284	7	13	7
Total	205	1741	258	1999	48	181	48
Avg.	29.3	248.7	36.9	285.6	6.9	25.9	6.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £33.67. One in every 62.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.60% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,136,556.

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 week expired at 5.30pm BST on Thursday 18th June 2015 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1983 (Wednesday 24th December 2014) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1981 (Wednesday 17th December 2014) [5 jackpot winners]

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