UK National Lotto #798

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 16th August 2003:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £5,264,099           1    £5,264,099      31.3%
5+bonus        £85,248          19    £1,619,712       9.6%
5 match         £1,871         541    £1,012,211       6.0%
4 match            £66      33,489    £2,210,274      13.1%
3 match            £10     672,276    £6,722,760      40.0%
Totals                     706,326   £16,829,056     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      6.5% fall   £37,435,617     64.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.8% rise   £20,555,271     35.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      4.0% fall   £57,990,888   

Lotto HotPicks #116 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           21       £147,000      13.9%
Pick 3              £450          934       £420,300      39.8%
Pick 2               £40       12,243       £489,720      46.3%
Totals                         13,198     £1,057,020     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       01        97      15      112       3        5        3 
2nd       09        99      22      121       8        7        7 
3rd       42        88      14      102       9       25        9 
4th       45       104      19      123       3      110        3 
5th       12       101      15      116       6       13        6 
6th       10       103      17      120       1       31        1 
Bonus     27       102      13      115      15       17       15 
Total    146       694     115      809      45      208       44
Avg.      20.9      99.1    16.4    115.6     6.4     29.7      6.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.83. One in every 53.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.89% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,514,092.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £190.
• 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 12th February 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #799 (Wednesday 20th August 2003) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #797 (Wednesday 13th August 2003) [4 jackpot winners]

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