UK National Lotto #1985 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 31st 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 356th single rollover draw and the 438th rollover in total, included £4,154,032 (62.1%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £2,534,077 (37.9%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£6,688,109	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£70,521	4	£282,084	4.3%
5 match	£1,487	161	£239,407	3.7%
4 match	£129	9,807	£1,265,103	19.3%
3 match	£25	190,384	£4,759,600	72.7%
Sub-totals	200,356		£6,546,194	86.7% of prizes
Raffle	£20,000	50	£1,000,000	13.2% of prizes
Totals		200,406	£7,546,194	100.0% of prizes
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		27.3% fall	£23,739,124

Lotto HotPicks #1303 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	12	£84,000	12.5%
Pick 3	£450	751	£337,950	50.4%
Pick 2	£40	5,603	£224,120	33.4%
Pick 1	£5	4,880	£24,400	3.7%
Totals	11,246		£670,470	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £59.62.

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	49	250	35	285	7	1	1
2nd	37	225	51	276	8	59	8
3rd	38	266	52	318	5	117	5
4th	22	240	37	277	3	2	2
5th	12	244	42	286	31	4	4
6th	18	246	32	278	3	18	3
Bonus	35	257	41	298	4	46	4
Total	211	1728	290	2018	61	247	27
Avg.	30.1	246.9	41.4	288.3	8.7	35.3	3.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £32.67. One in every 59.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.69% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £17,837,509.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 39 wins totalling £585.

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 29th June 2015 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1986 (Saturday 3rd January 2015) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1984 (Saturday 27th December 2014) [No jackpot winners]

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