UK National Lotto Extra #203 (Super Draw #203)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.58pm BST on Wednesday 23rd October 2002:

The main Lotto table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9 100 000 *15).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,000,000           0            £0     100.0% - rolled over
5 match             £0           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
Totals                           0            £0     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales            18.5% rise      £703,664   

The next table displays the draw order, revised frequencies and the last prior appearance of each of the 6 balls.

             Updated Frequencies    Since Last Appeared
Drawn   Order      Main                   Main
1st       07        29                      2 
2nd       05        26                      1 
3rd       23        26                      3 
4th       06        23                     19 
5th       12        34                      1 
6th       14        32                      4 
Total     67       170                     30
Avg.      11.2      28.3                    5.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 8 in the Guinevere machine.
• This was the 203rd Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £1,000,000.
• Due to a completely mad rule laid down a while ago by the Lottery Commission, it has been deemed that showing 3 live lottery draws on TV with no break would cause people's heads to explode and has therefore been banned (if anyone cares to come up with a more logical explanation why 2 draws consecutively are OK, but 3 are inherently harmful, please let me know). This meant that this Extra draw wasn't shown live and just the (sorted) numbers were shown with a static caption on screen.

  This meant the following information was woefully omitted from the BBC 1 TV lottery show for the Extra draw:

  • The live draw (how else do we have any proof that an Extra draw even took place ?).
  • The recorded draw (they did the draw "earlier", but refused to show a recording of it),
  • The drawn order of the balls (the onscreen caption only showed the sorted order).

  What's most annoying is that the Lottery Commission's rule on this means that this will happen every Wednesday from now onwards - so 17% of Camelot's draws are now no longer televised, which is staggering. I've formally complained to Camelot, not that it will do any good. If anyone from the Lottery Commission is reading this, please bow your head in abject shame - you have a rule on your books which has no logic behind it and should be removed ASAP.

• The sum of the six Extra balls was the outright lowest ever.
• Unclaimed prizes from this draw expired at 11.00pm BST on Monday 21st April 2003 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto Extra: #204 (Saturday 26th October 2002) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto Extra: #202 (Saturday 19th October 2002) [1 jackpot winner]

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