UK National Lotto #957

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 23rd February 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,411,489           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus       £174,948           6    £1,049,688      17.5%
5 match         £3,231         203      £655,893      11.0%
4 match           £112      12,810    £1,434,720      23.9%
3 match            £10     285,618    £2,856,180      47.6%
Totals                     298,637    £5,996,481     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.8% fall   £20,926,080   

Lotto HotPicks #275 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           19       £133,000      15.6%
Pick 3              £450          776       £349,200      41.1%
Pick 2               £40        9,193       £367,720      43.3%
Totals                          9,988       £849,920     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       32       127      12      139       3      108        3 
2nd       37       107      24      131      17       10       10 
3rd       25       133      26      159      19        3        3 
4th       36       111      22      133       5       13        5 
5th       17       112      22      134      13        4        4 
6th       30       122      21      143       1       77        1 
Bonus     06       118      22      140      15        1        1 
Total    183       830     149      979      73      216       27
Avg.      26.1     118.6    21.3    139.9    10.4     30.9      3.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.08. One in every 70.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.43% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,373,129.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 20 wins totalling £200.
• 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 5.30pm BST on Monday 22nd August 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #958 (Saturday 26th February 2005) [2 jackpot winners]
  Previous Lotto: #956 (Saturday 19th February 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

  

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