UK National Lotto #878 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 22nd May 2004:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 131st single rollover draw and the 144th rollover in total, included £3,089,641 (34.5%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £5,878,309 (65.5%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£8,967,950	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£164,428	11	£1,808,708	15.6%
5 match	£2,666	424	£1,130,384	9.7%
4 match	£86	28,877	£2,483,422	21.4%
3 match	£10	617,615	£6,176,150	53.3%
Totals	646,927		£11,598,664	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		7.1% rise	£38,845,760	65.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		2.0% fall	£20,174,176	34.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		3.8% rise	£59,019,936

Lotto HotPicks #196 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	16	£112,000	12.9%
Pick 3	£450	724	£325,800	37.6%
Pick 2	£40	10,726	£429,040	49.5%
Totals	11,466		£866,840	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £75.60.

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	01	109	16	125	7	41	7
2nd	04	99	15	114	2	5	2
3rd	46	113	18	131	2	71	2
4th	05	101	19	120	6	4	4
5th	34	104	18	122	7	10	7
6th	25	123	23	146	12	119	12
Bonus	12	107	19	126	14	2	2
Total	127	756	128	884	50	252	36
Avg.	18.1	108.0	18.3	126.3	7.1	36.0	5.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.93. One in every 60.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.67% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £2,393,257.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 13 wins totalling £130.

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 GMT on Thursday 18th November 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #879 (Wednesday 26th May 2004) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #877 (Wednesday 19th May 2004) [No jackpot winners]

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