UK National Lotto #974

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 23rd April 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£684,008	7	£4,788,056	28.9%
5+bonus	£70,154	21	£1,473,234	8.9%
5 match	£1,024	899	£920,576	5.6%
4 match	£47	42,653	£2,004,691	12.1%
3 match	£10	737,417	£7,374,170	44.5%
Totals	780,997		£16,560,727	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		10.0% fall	£36,848,823	64.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.2% rise	£20,354,057	35.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		6.6% fall	£57,202,880

Lotto HotPicks #292 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	39	£273,000	18.5%
Pick 3	£450	1,359	£611,550	41.6%
Pick 2	£40	14,673	£586,920	39.9%
Totals	16,071		£1,471,470	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £91.56.

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	31	131	25	156	7	44	7
2nd	43	139	21	160	1	15	1
3rd	25	139	26	165	2	20	2
4th	18	121	15	136	6	64	6
5th	29	115	23	138	6	12	6
6th	03	117	20	137	11	86	11
Bonus	23	133	20	153	3	37	3
Total	172	895	150	1045	36	278	36
Avg.	24.6	127.9	21.4	149.3	5.1	39.7	5.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.20. One in every 47.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.12% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,338,324.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £180.

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 20th October 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #975 (Wednesday 27th April 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #973 (Wednesday 20th April 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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