UK National Lotto #982

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 21st May 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,930,787	3	£5,792,361	35.7%
5+bonus	£178,226	10	£1,782,260	11.0%
5 match	£2,602	428	£1,113,656	6.9%
4 match	£94	26,037	£2,447,478	15.1%
3 match	£10	507,721	£5,077,210	31.3%
Totals	534,199		£16,212,965	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.7% fall	£36,036,369	63.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		19.9% fall	£20,396,883	36.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		9.2% fall	£56,433,252

Lotto HotPicks #300 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	26	£182,000	18.6%
Pick 3	£450	846	£380,700	38.9%
Pick 2	£40	10,391	£415,640	42.5%
Totals	11,263		£978,340	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £86.86.

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	47	138	20	158	1	62	1
2nd	34	111	19	130	4	47	4
3rd	43	142	21	163	2	23	2
4th	38	151	24	175	5	120	5
5th	48	130	15	145	2	70	2
6th	14	114	22	136	11	34	11
Bonus	09	123	27	150	19	36	19
Total	233	909	148	1057	44	392	44
Avg.	33.3	129.9	21.1	151.0	6.3	56.0	6.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.35. One in every 67.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.48% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,896,678.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 24 wins totalling £270.

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

Next Lotto: #983 (Wednesday 25th May 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #981 (Wednesday 18th May 2005) [2 jackpot winners]

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