UK National Lotto #966 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 26th March 2005:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 147th single rollover draw and the 164th rollover in total, included £3,006,219 (34.7%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £5,668,852 (65.3%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£8,675,071	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£116,284	15	£1,744,260	14.5%
5 match	£2,056	530	£1,089,680	9.1%
4 match	£71	33,747	£2,396,037	20.0%
3 match	£10	677,627	£6,776,270	56.4%
Totals	711,919		£12,006,247	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		6.5% rise	£39,284,245	65.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.4% fall	£20,293,983	34.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		3.7% rise	£59,578,228

Lotto HotPicks #284 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	20	£140,000	13.8%
Pick 3	£450	892	£401,400	39.6%
Pick 2	£40	11,816	£472,640	46.6%
Totals	12,728		£1,014,040	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £79.67.

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	28	126	25	151	15	57	15
2nd	48	126	15	141	4	54	4
3rd	05	116	19	135	18	92	18
4th	40	128	13	141	5	23	5
5th	21	103	29	132	3	15	3
6th	23	131	19	150	12	29	12
Bonus	26	111	21	132	6	48	6
Total	191	841	141	982	63	318	63
Avg.	27.3	120.1	20.1	140.3	9.0	45.4	9.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £16.86. One in every 55.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.81% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £2,938,574.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £197.

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 22nd September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #967 (Wednesday 30th March 2005) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #965 (Wednesday 23rd March 2005) [No jackpot winners]

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