UK National Lotto #983

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 25th May 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,100,673	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£95,405	10	£954,050	15.9%
5 match	£1,602	372	£595,944	10.0%
4 match	£78	16,707	£1,303,146	21.8%
3 match	£10	312,725	£3,127,250	52.3%
Totals	329,814		£5,980,390	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		1.0% fall	£20,200,184

Lotto HotPicks #301 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	25	£175,000	22.3%
Pick 3	£450	665	£299,250	38.2%
Pick 2	£40	7,735	£309,400	39.5%
Totals	8,425		£783,650	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £93.01.

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	18	123	15	138	3	73	3
2nd	33	128	24	152	3	25	3
3rd	37	108	24	132	26	36	26
4th	14	115	22	137	1	35	1
5th	29	117	24	141	4	8	4
6th	39	109	13	122	7	16	7
Bonus	47	138	21	159	1	63	1
Total	217	838	143	981	45	256	45
Avg.	31.0	119.7	20.4	140.1	6.4	36.6	6.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.13. One in every 61.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.63% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,008,986.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 13 wins totalling £176.

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 21st November 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #984 (Saturday 28th May 2005) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #982 (Saturday 21st May 2005) [3 jackpot winners]

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