UK National Lotto #872

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 1st May 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,386,386	2	£4,772,772	28.3%
5+bonus	£77,291	19	£1,468,529	8.7%
5 match	£1,145	801	£917,145	5.4%
4 match	£45	44,250	£1,991,250	11.8%
3 match	£10	773,841	£7,738,410	45.8%
Totals	818,913		£16,888,106	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		5.5% fall	£37,592,929	63.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.2% fall	£21,251,123	36.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		3.6% fall	£58,844,052

Lotto HotPicks #190 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	34	£238,000	14.5%
Pick 3	£450	1,711	£769,950	46.9%
Pick 2	£40	15,851	£634,040	38.6%
Totals	17,596		£1,641,990	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £93.32.

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	05	100	18	118	2	8	2
2nd	49	97	17	114	3	11	3
3rd	10	110	19	129	14	33	14
4th	15	97	16	113	22	54	22
5th	27	109	13	122	26	74	26
6th	06	106	19	125	18	43	18
Bonus	20	88	24	112	3	136	3
Total	132	707	126	833	88	359	88
Avg.	18.9	101.0	18.0	119.0	12.6	51.3	12.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.62. One in every 45.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.18% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,595,695.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £140.

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 28th October 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #873 (Wednesday 5th May 2004) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #871 (Wednesday 28th April 2004) [1 jackpot winner]

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