UK National Lotto #972 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 16th April 2005:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 149th single rollover draw and the 167th rollover in total, included £3,379,709 (33.8%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £6,615,905 (66.2%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£9,995,614	1	£9,995,614	45.9%
5+bonus	£169,638	12	£2,035,656	9.3%
5 match	£2,931	434	£1,272,054	5.8%
4 match	£102	27,358	£2,790,516	12.8%
3 match	£10	570,152	£5,701,520	26.2%
Totals	597,957		£21,795,360	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		2.1% rise	£40,943,147	66.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.8% fall	£20,322,760	33.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.1% rise	£61,265,907

Lotto HotPicks #290 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	24	£168,000	16.6%
Pick 3	£450	802	£360,900	35.6%
Pick 2	£40	12,101	£484,040	47.8%
Totals	12,927		£1,012,940	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £78.36.

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	39	107	13	120	9	5	5
2nd	42	114	22	136	4	7	4
3rd	40	130	13	143	1	29	1
4th	32	129	13	142	7	9	7
5th	26	115	21	136	3	6	3
6th	25	138	26	164	2	18	2
Bonus	41	96	21	117	1	17	1
Total	245	829	129	958	27	91	23
Avg.	35.0	118.4	18.4	136.9	3.9	13.0	3.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £36.45. One in every 68.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.46% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,491,166.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £160.

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 13th October 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #973 (Wednesday 20th April 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #971 (Wednesday 13th April 2005) [No jackpot winners]

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