UK National Lotto #979 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 11th May 2005:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 151st single rollover draw and the 169th rollover in total, included £5,856,652 (65.0%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £3,152,453 (35.0%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,003,035	3	£9,009,105	52.1%
5+bonus	£53,888	18	£969,984	5.6%
5 match	£969	625	£605,625	3.5%
4 match	£40	32,649	£1,305,960	7.6%
3 match	£10	539,137	£5,391,370	31.2%
Totals	572,432		£17,282,044	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		27.9% rise	£25,452,844

Lotto HotPicks #297 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	22	£154,000	13.9%
Pick 3	£450	1,149	£517,050	46.7%
Pick 2	£40	10,896	£435,840	39.4%
Totals	12,067		£1,106,890	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £91.73.

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	17	113	22	135	22	26	22
2nd	43	140	21	161	5	20	5
3rd	06	123	24	147	1	8	1
4th	29	116	24	140	5	4	4
5th	11	133	21	154	12	47	12
6th	01	119	19	138	12	27	12
Bonus	08	115	23	138	15	9	9
Total	115	859	154	1013	72	141	65
Avg.	16.4	122.7	22.0	144.7	10.3	20.1	9.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.19. One in every 44.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.25% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,107,107.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £150.

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 GMT on Monday 7th November 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #980 (Saturday 14th May 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #978 (Saturday 7th May 2005) [No jackpot winners]

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