UK National Lotto #970 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 9th April 2005:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 148th single rollover draw and the 166th rollover in total, included £3,462,677 (36.8%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £5,958,187 (63.2%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£9,420,864	1	£9,420,864	43.8%
5+bonus	£141,022	13	£1,833,286	8.5%
5 match	£2,090	548	£1,145,320	5.3%
4 match	£75	33,453	£2,508,975	11.7%
3 match	£10	658,645	£6,586,450	30.7%
Totals	692,660		£21,494,895	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		8.3% rise	£40,098,894	66.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		18.3% fall	£20,480,702	33.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		2.4% fall	£60,579,596

Lotto HotPicks #288 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	29	£203,000	17.6%
Pick 3	£450	911	£409,950	35.4%
Pick 2	£40	13,587	£543,480	47.0%
Totals	14,527		£1,156,430	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £79.61.

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	47	134	20	154	9	50	9
2nd	22	114	24	138	1	76	1
3rd	45	123	23	146	1	39	1
4th	25	137	26	163	5	16	5
5th	27	125	15	140	2	6	2
6th	14	112	22	134	5	22	5
Bonus	08	115	22	137	6	10	6
Total	188	860	152	1012	29	219	29
Avg.	26.9	122.9	21.7	144.6	4.1	31.3	4.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £31.03. One in every 57.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.73% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,140,806.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 22 wins totalling £220.

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 6th October 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #971 (Wednesday 13th April 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #969 (Wednesday 6th April 2005) [No jackpot winners]

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