UK National Lotto #938

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 18th December 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,117,972	4	£4,471,888	26.8%
5+bonus	£85,997	16	£1,375,952	8.2%
5 match	£664	1,295	£859,880	5.1%
4 match	£36	51,958	£1,870,488	11.2%
3 match	£10	812,913	£8,129,130	48.7%
Totals	866,186		£16,707,338	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.2% rise	£37,175,366	64.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.8% rise	£20,624,309	35.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.1% rise	£57,799,675

Lotto HotPicks #256 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	43	£301,000	15.2%
Pick 3	£450	2,049	£922,050	46.7%
Pick 2	£40	18,781	£751,240	38.1%
Totals	20,873		£1,974,290	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £94.59.

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	25	132	24	156	1	51	1
2nd	05	111	19	130	13	64	13
3rd	16	102	20	122	3	21	3
4th	27	120	14	134	2	27	2
5th	30	116	21	137	20	58	20
6th	22	108	24	132	10	44	10
Bonus	33	117	23	140	13	75	13
Total	158	806	145	951	62	340	62
Avg.	22.6	115.1	20.7	135.9	8.9	48.6	8.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Garnet machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.29. One in every 42.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.33% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,239,682.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 22 wins totalling £298.

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 16th June 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #939 (Wednesday 22nd December 2004) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #937 (Wednesday 15th December 2004) [1 jackpot winner]

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