UK National Lotto #896 (Super Draw #61)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 24th July 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£15,000,000	1	£15,000,000	54.3%
5+bonus	£117,233	18	£2,110,194	7.6%
5 match	£2,406	548	£1,318,488	4.8%
4 match	£97	29,803	£2,890,891	10.5%
3 match	£10	630,049	£6,300,490	22.8%
Totals	660,419		£27,620,063	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		14.6% rise	£43,309,339	66.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		37.2% fall	£21,755,321	33.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		10.2% fall	£65,064,660

Lotto HotPicks #214 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	20	£140,000	16.2%
Pick 3	£450	716	£322,200	37.2%
Pick 2	£40	10,100	£404,000	46.6%
Totals	10,836		£866,200	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £79.94.

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	30	112	21	133	30	16	16
2nd	27	111	13	124	3	98	3
3rd	31	121	24	145	4	61	4
4th	22	103	24	127	11	2	2
5th	48	116	14	130	9	227	9
6th	49	101	17	118	12	35	12
Bonus	28	117	23	140	8	17	8
Total	235	781	136	917	77	456	54
Avg.	33.6	111.6	19.4	131.0	11.0	65.1	7.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Pearl machine and the average main Lotto prize was £41.82. One in every 65.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.52% of players).

This was the 61st Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £15,000,000.

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £2,517,686.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £229.

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 20th January 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #897 (Wednesday 28th July 2004) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #895 (Wednesday 21st July 2004) [2 jackpot winners]

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