UK National Lotto #980

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 14th May 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,140,514	1	£5,140,514	31.2%
5+bonus	£75,318	21	£1,581,678	9.6%
5 match	£1,240	797	£988,280	6.0%
4 match	£57	38,043	£2,168,451	13.1%
3 match	£10	661,443	£6,614,430	40.1%
Totals	700,305		£16,493,353	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.2% fall	£36,666,742	59.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		27.9% rise	£25,452,844	41.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		9.7% rise	£62,119,586

Lotto HotPicks #298 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	31	£217,000	18.6%
Pick 3	£450	1,031	£463,950	39.7%
Pick 2	£40	12,177	£487,080	41.7%
Totals	13,239		£1,168,030	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £88.23.

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	43	141	21	162	1	21	1
2nd	18	122	15	137	6	70	6
3rd	33	127	24	151	16	22	16
4th	12	123	19	142	15	102	15
5th	48	129	15	144	3	68	3
6th	22	115	24	139	10	86	10
Bonus	25	139	27	166	6	26	6
Total	201	896	145	1041	57	395	57
Avg.	28.7	128.0	20.7	148.7	8.1	56.4	8.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.55. One in every 52.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.91% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,725,308.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 21 wins totalling £388.

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 GMT on Thursday 10th November 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #981 (Wednesday 18th May 2005) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #979 (Wednesday 11th May 2005) [3 jackpot winners]

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