UK National Lotto #959

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 2nd March 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot       £960,695           3    £2,882,085      30.7%
5+bonus        £59,119          15      £886,785       9.5%
5 match         £1,639         338      £553,982       5.9%
4 match            £59      20,580    £1,214,220      12.9%
3 match            £10     384,968    £3,849,680      41.0%
Totals                     405,904    £9,386,752     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.3% fall   £20,871,459   

Lotto HotPicks #277 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           15       £105,000      13.4%
Pick 3              £450          703       £316,350      40.2%
Pick 2               £40        9,116       £364,640      46.4%
Totals                          9,834       £785,990     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       33       125      24      149       6        1        1 
2nd       15       108      17      125      11       62       11 
3rd       48       124      15      139       1       47        1 
4th       03       115      20      135       9       71        9 
5th       16       104      20      124       3       42        3 
6th       06       119      22      141      17        2        2 
Bonus     43       135      21      156       1       26        1 
Total    164       830     139      969      48      251       28
Avg.      23.4     118.6    19.9    138.4     6.9     35.9      4.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.13. One in every 51.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.94% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,586,776.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £150.
• 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 29th August 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #960 (Saturday 5th March 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
  Previous Lotto: #958 (Saturday 26th February 2005) [2 jackpot winners]

  

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