UK National Lotto #808

01 02 15 23 31 48 (49)

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,484,618	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£187,508	9	£1,687,572	14.5%
5 match	£1,448	728	£1,054,144	9.0%
4 match	£62	37,310	£2,313,220	19.9%
3 match	£10	660,205	£6,602,050	56.6%
Totals	698,252		£11,656,986	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		17.4% fall	£38,109,765	65.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		3.1% fall	£20,289,388	34.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		13.0% fall	£58,399,153

Lotto HotPicks #126 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	29	£203,000	15.5%
Pick 3	£450	1,185	£533,250	40.7%
Pick 2	£40	14,379	£575,160	43.8%
Totals	15,593		£1,311,410	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £84.10.

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 7 balls.

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £16.69. One in every 54.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.83% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,129,222.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 25 wins totalling £1,913.
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.
Manual draw comments will be available here shortly.
Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm GMT on Thursday 18th March 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #809 (Wednesday 24th September 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #807 (Wednesday 17th September 2003) [2 jackpot winners]