UK National Lotto #729

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 18th December 2002:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,018,790	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£185,771	5	£928,855	14.0%
5 match	£1,644	353	£580,332	8.7%
4 match	£63	19,963	£1,257,669	18.9%
3 match	£10	388,629	£3,886,290	58.4%
Totals	408,950		£6,653,146	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		0.9% rise	£21,537,016

Lotto HotPicks #47 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	21	£147,000	15.3%
Pick 3	£450	847	£381,150	39.5%
Pick 2	£40	10,898	£435,920	45.2%
Totals	11,766		£964,070	100.0%
Ticket sales	£2,085,845

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £81.94 and one in every 177.0 Lotto HotPicks tickets won a prize (=0.56% of players).

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	11	97	16	113	1	31	1
2nd	42	81	13	94	6	44	6
3rd	21	76	18	94	1	13	1
4th	17	82	14	96	32	96	32
5th	40	99	9	108	4	126	4
6th	22	77	18	95	20	63	20
Bonus	19	88	6	94	3	146	3
Total	172	600	94	694	67	519	67
Avg.	24.6	85.7	13.4	99.1	9.6	74.1	9.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Galahad machine and the average main Lotto prize was £16.27. One in every 52.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.90% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,065,753.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 13 wins totalling £186.

The sixth appearance of the number 19 as a bonus ball still keeps it firmly anchored at the bottom of the appropriate frequency table, three adrift from the rest.

Only five ticket combinations have now failed to win in any of the 729 main lotteries to date.

Although the main Lotto's ticket sales rose slightly for this draw, they were still the second worst main Lotto sales of all time.

I matched one number on my first ticket and nothing on my second ticket, so my hopelessly unfruitful run continues.

Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 16th June 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #730 (Saturday 21st December 2002) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #728 (Saturday 14th December 2002) [2 jackpot winners]

UK National Lotto #729

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 18th December 2002:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.45am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020