UK National Lotto #918

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 9th October 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£4,829,180	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£114,300	13	£1,485,900	12.7%
5 match	£915	1,014	£927,810	7.9%
4 match	£48	42,313	£2,031,024	17.4%
3 match	£10	725,341	£7,253,410	62.0%
Totals	768,681		£11,698,144	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.8% fall	£36,756,214	63.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.9% fall	£20,825,474	36.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.4% fall	£57,581,688

Lotto HotPicks #236 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	42	£294,000	21.0%
Pick 3	£450	1,237	£556,650	39.8%
Pick 2	£40	13,737	£549,480	39.2%
Totals	15,016		£1,400,130	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £93.24.

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	34	106	18	124	39	50	39
2nd	30	115	21	136	8	38	8
3rd	17	109	21	130	7	5	5
4th	22	105	24	129	19	24	19
5th	06	116	20	136	1	33	1
6th	27	114	14	128	9	7	7
Bonus	26	106	20	126	33	155	33
Total	162	771	138	909	116	312	112
Avg.	23.1	110.1	19.7	129.9	16.6	44.6	16.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £15.22. One in every 47.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.09% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,137,634.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £170.

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 7th April 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #919 (Wednesday 13th October 2004) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #917 (Wednesday 6th October 2004) [2 jackpot winners]

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