UK National Lotto #898

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 31st July 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,684,767	2	£5,369,534	31.4%
5+bonus	£118,011	14	£1,652,154	9.7%
5 match	£1,364	757	£1,032,548	6.1%
4 match	£61	37,030	£2,258,830	13.2%
3 match	£10	677,117	£6,771,170	39.6%
Totals	714,920		£17,084,236	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		12.3% fall	£37,993,772	63.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.4% rise	£22,070,450	36.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		7.7% fall	£60,064,222

Lotto HotPicks #216 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	25	£175,000	16.7%
Pick 3	£450	922	£414,900	39.6%
Pick 2	£40	11,466	£458,640	43.7%
Totals	12,413		£1,048,540	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £84.47.

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	40	118	11	129	3	51	3
2nd	29	108	21	129	9	47	9
3rd	03	107	20	127	4	10	4
4th	13	89	12	101	3	7	3
5th	48	117	14	131	2	229	2
6th	17	106	19	125	7	12	7
Bonus	39	98	12	110	21	81	21
Total	189	743	109	852	49	437	49
Avg.	27.0	106.1	15.6	121.7	7.0	62.4	7.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Pearl machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.90. One in every 53.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.88% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,119,835.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £2,778.

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 27th January 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #899 (Wednesday 4th August 2004) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #897 (Wednesday 28th July 2004) [1 jackpot winner]

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