UK National Lotto #997

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 13th July 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,200,470	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£109,417	9	£984,753	16.7%
5 match	£2,586	238	£615,468	10.4%
4 match	£88	15,275	£1,344,200	22.8%
3 match	£10	295,812	£2,958,120	50.1%
Totals	311,334		£5,902,541	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		22.3% fall	£20,250,826

Lotto HotPicks #315 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	20	£140,000	19.3%
Pick 3	£450	692	£311,400	42.9%
Pick 2	£40	6,858	£274,320	37.8%
Totals	7,570		£725,720	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £95.87.

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	36	115	23	138	2	29	2
2nd	47	140	21	161	6	14	6
3rd	25	142	27	169	3	17	3
4th	39	110	13	123	14	30	14
5th	42	117	22	139	7	32	7
6th	03	120	20	140	2	109	2
Bonus	23	137	21	158	1	23	1
Total	215	881	147	1028	35	254	35
Avg.	30.7	125.9	21.0	146.9	5.0	36.3	5.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.96. One in every 65.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.54% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,793,908.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 22 wins totalling £296.

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 9th January 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #998 (Saturday 16th July 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #996 (Saturday 9th July 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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