UK National Lotto #939

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 22nd December 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,850,217	1	£2,850,217	30.6%
5+bonus	£292,330	3	£876,990	9.4%
5 match	£1,509	363	£547,767	5.9%
4 match	£56	21,209	£1,187,704	12.7%
3 match	£10	386,161	£3,861,610	41.4%
Totals	407,737		£9,324,288	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		0.7% rise	£20,761,774

Lotto HotPicks #257 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	14	£98,000	12.1%
Pick 3	£450	726	£326,700	40.5%
Pick 2	£40	9,564	£382,560	47.4%
Totals	10,304		£807,260	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £78.34.

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	45	120	23	143	5	8	5
2nd	44	134	15	149	22	58	22
3rd	04	106	15	121	7	66	7
4th	47	130	20	150	15	19	15
5th	12	118	19	137	4	61	4
6th	27	121	14	135	1	28	1
Bonus	41	93	18	111	23	123	23
Total	220	822	124	946	77	363	77
Avg.	31.4	117.4	17.7	135.1	11.0	51.9	11.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Pearl machine and the average main Lotto prize was £22.87. One in every 50.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.96% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,030,273.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 21 wins totalling £395.

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 draw expired at 5.30pm BST on Monday 20th June 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #940 (Friday 24th December 2004) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #938 (Saturday 18th December 2004) [4 jackpot winners]

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