UK National Lotto #861

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 24th March 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,583,503	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£132,487	6	£794,922	11.6%
5 match	£962	516	£496,392	7.2%
4 match	£41	26,170	£1,072,970	15.6%
3 match	£10	450,525	£4,505,250	65.6%
Totals	477,217		£6,869,534	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		0.3% fall	£21,052,278

Lotto HotPicks #179 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	24	£168,000	13.8%
Pick 3	£450	1,146	£515,700	42.2%
Pick 2	£40	13,418	£536,720	44.0%
Totals	14,588		£1,220,420	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £83.66.

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	17	102	18	120	4	21	4
2nd	19	107	7	114	3	131	3
3rd	29	101	21	122	21	10	10
4th	41	87	17	104	8	45	8
5th	07	107	14	121	26	5	5
6th	26	101	19	120	30	98	30
Bonus	49	94	17	111	23	53	23
Total	188	699	113	812	115	363	83
Avg.	26.9	99.9	16.1	116.0	16.4	51.9	11.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £14.39. One in every 44.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.27% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,757,588.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 6 wins totalling £60.

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 11.00pm BST on Monday 20th September 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #862 (Saturday 27th March 2004) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #860 (Saturday 20th March 2004) [1 jackpot winner]

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