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UK National Lotto #691
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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 7th August 2002:
The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Jackpot | £3,050,304 | 0 | £0 | 0.0% - rolled over |
| 5+bonus | £938,555 | 0 | £0 | 0.0% |
| 5 match | £1,788 | 328 | £586,464 | 9.9% |
| 4 match | £61 | 20,930 | £1,276,730 | 21.5% |
| 3 match | £10 | 406,351 | £4,063,510 | 68.6% |
| Totals | 427,609 | £5,926,704 | 100.0% |
| Category | Change | Figure |
| Ticket sales | 21.5% fall | £22,065,510 |
Lotto HotPicks #9 results:
| Category | Prize | Winners | Total | Percentages |
|---|
| Pick 4 | £7,000 | 20 | £140,000 | 12.8% |
| Pick 3 | £450 | 956 | £430,200 | 39.3% |
| Pick 2 | £40 | 13,104 | £524,160 | 47.9% |
| Totals | 14,080 | £1,094,360 | 100.0% |
| Ticket sales | £2,727,929 |
The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £77.72 and one in every 193.0 Lotto HotPicks tickets won a prize (=0.52% of players).
The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.
Comments:
- The draw used ball set 5 in the Vyvyan machine and the average main Lotto prize was £13.86.
One in every 51.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.94% of players).
- If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,773,269.
- The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £140.
- This was only the second draw ever to fail to have any 5+bonus winners
(the first one, just over 3 years ago, split the unwon
5+bonus prize pool between the two jackpot winners).
- Even more remarkably, this draw has become freakishly unique in having
no jackpot or 5+bonus winners at all. This threw Camelot into major chaos
as they took almost two hours to release the unwon jackpot amount and completely
failed to release the unwon 5+bonus amount on Wednesday evening.
- Both the unwon jackpot and 5+bonus individual prizes combined (totalling
£3,988,859) will roll over into next Saturday's jackpot prize pool.
- If you looked at
BBC teletext, ITV teletext or the official Web site on Wednesday night,
they all played it "safe" and stated that nothing at all was unwon in the
5+bonus and jackpot prize tiers. This, naturally enough, is wrong, because
the unwon prizes have to roll over to Saturday of course !
- Needless to say, the total prize pool was
the lowest of all time.
- The average prize was the second lowest ever.
- Ticket sales fell to their third lowest
amount ever, but total Wednesday sales since 5th February 1997
did at least manage to exceed £8 billion tonight.
- I matched one number on my first ticket and nothing on my second ticket,
so I'm quite pleased that no-one won more than £1,788 tonight :-)
- Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm GMT on Monday 3rd February 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.
Next Lotto: #692 (Saturday 10th August 2002) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #690 (Saturday 3rd August 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
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