UK National Lotto #998 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 16th July 2005:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 156th single rollover draw and the 174th rollover in total, included £3,200,470 (37.5%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £5,335,961 (62.5%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£8,536,431	1	£8,536,431	41.7%
5+bonus	£234,547	7	£1,641,829	8.0%
5 match	£1,739	590	£1,026,010	5.0%
4 match	£62	35,955	£2,229,210	10.9%
3 match	£10	705,506	£7,055,060	34.4%
Totals	742,059		£20,488,540	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		4.4% fall	£38,481,167	65.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		22.3% fall	£20,250,826	34.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		11.4% fall	£58,731,993

Lotto HotPicks #316 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	22	£154,000	14.4%
Pick 3	£450	869	£391,050	36.6%
Pick 2	£40	13,060	£522,400	49.0%
Totals	13,951		£1,067,450	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £76.51.

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	44	143	15	158	3	117	3
2nd	03	121	20	141	1	110	1
3rd	21	107	29	136	12	47	12
4th	38	154	25	179	4	2	2
5th	02	124	17	141	10	11	10
6th	24	113	20	133	14	76	14
Bonus	47	140	22	162	1	15	1
Total	179	902	148	1050	45	378	43
Avg.	25.6	128.9	21.1	150.0	6.4	54.0	6.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £27.61. One in every 51.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.93% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,620,001.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 24 wins totalling £292.

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 12th January 2006 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #999 (Wednesday 20th July 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #997 (Wednesday 13th July 2005) [No jackpot winners]

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