UK National Lotto #973

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 20th April 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,177,338	1	£3,177,338	34.7%
5+bonus	£122,205	8	£977,640	10.7%
5 match	£2,136	286	£610,896	6.7%
4 match	£84	15,840	£1,330,560	14.6%
3 match	£10	304,906	£3,049,060	33.3%
Totals	321,041		£9,145,494	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		0.2% rise	£20,354,057

Lotto HotPicks #291 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	12	£84,000	11.6%
Pick 3	£450	651	£292,950	40.5%
Pick 2	£40	8,680	£347,200	47.9%
Totals	9,343		£724,150	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £77.51.

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	38	149	24	173	8	111	8
2nd	26	116	21	137	1	7	1
3rd	27	126	15	141	3	9	3
4th	13	98	12	110	18	82	18
5th	43	138	21	159	4	14	4
6th	41	97	21	118	2	1	1
Bonus	35	123	21	144	10	23	10
Total	223	847	135	982	46	247	45
Avg.	31.9	121.0	19.3	140.3	6.6	35.3	6.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £28.49. One in every 63.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.58% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,782,874.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 19 wins totalling £190.

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 17th October 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #974 (Saturday 23rd April 2005) [7 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #972 (Saturday 16th April 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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