UK National Lotto #996 (Super Draw #66)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 9th July 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£15,000,000	1	£15,000,000	55.4%
5+bonus	£184,515	10	£1,845,150	6.8%
5 match	£2,059	560	£1,153,040	4.2%
4 match	£77	32,724	£2,519,748	9.3%
3 match	£10	657,345	£6,573,450	24.3%
Totals	690,640		£27,091,388	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		9.5% rise	£40,234,750	60.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		27.1% rise	£26,062,624	39.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		15.8% rise	£66,297,374

Lotto HotPicks #314 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	14	£98,000	11.1%
Pick 3	£450	759	£341,550	38.6%
Pick 2	£40	11,129	£445,160	50.3%
Totals	11,902		£884,710	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £74.33.

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	22	117	24	141	15	102	15
2nd	37	110	25	135	7	6	6
3rd	07	124	16	140	3	2	2
4th	20	96	27	123	11	1	1
5th	23	137	20	157	3	22	3
6th	34	115	20	135	8	4	4
Bonus	38	153	25	178	2	134	2
Total	181	852	157	1009	49	271	33
Avg.	25.9	121.7	22.4	144.1	7.0	38.7	4.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £39.23. One in every 58.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.72% of players).

This was the 66th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £15,000,000.

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £2,608,115.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £216.

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 5th January 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #997 (Wednesday 13th July 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #995 (Wednesday 6th July 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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