UK National Lotto #960

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 5th March 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £5,282,794           1    £5,282,794      31.2%
5+bonus        £67,728          24    £1,625,472       9.6%
5 match         £1,707         595    £1,015,665       6.0%
4 match            £62      35,808    £2,220,096      13.1%
3 match            £10     680,305    £6,803,050      40.1%
Totals                     716,733   £16,947,077     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)     11.6% fall   £37,693,935     64.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.3% fall   £20,871,459     35.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      7.8% fall   £58,565,394   

Lotto HotPicks #278 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           24       £168,000      12.0%
Pick 3              £450        1,311       £589,950      42.2%
Pick 2               £40       16,033       £641,320      45.8%
Totals                         17,368     £1,399,270     100.0%

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       49       112      17      129       5       99        5 
2nd       27       123      14      137      10       49       10 
3rd       26       111      20      131      25       42       25 
4th       19       125       8      133       4       11        4 
5th       24       110      20      130       7       38        7 
6th       06       120      22      142       1        3        1 
Bonus     08       113      21      134       2       67        2 
Total    159       814     122      936      54      309       54
Avg.      22.7     116.3    17.4    133.7     7.7     44.1      7.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.64. One in every 52.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.90% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,580,497.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £170.
• 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 BST on Thursday 1st September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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