UK National Lotto #963

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 16th March 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,212,459           2    £2,424,918      26.2%
5+bonus       £186,532           4      £746,128       8.1%
5 match           £959         486      £466,074       5.0%
4 match            £39      26,240    £1,023,360      11.1%
3 match            £10     459,582    £4,595,820      49.6%
Totals                     486,314    £9,256,300     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.9% fall   £20,575,839   

Lotto HotPicks #281 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           20       £140,000      12.7%
Pick 3              £450        1,203       £541,350      48.9%
Pick 2               £40       10,634       £425,360      38.4%
Totals                         11,857     £1,106,710     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       35       123      20      143       7       13        7 
2nd       03       116      20      136       4       75        4 
3rd       21       102      29      131       2       12        2 
4th       09       123      26      149       1       17        1 
5th       39       106      12      118       2       65        2 
6th       07       119      15      134      19       62       19 
Bonus     32       127      13      140       6      114        6 
Total    146       816     135      951      41      358       41
Avg.      20.9     116.6    19.3    135.9     5.9     51.1      5.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 2 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.03. One in every 42.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.36% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,687,021.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £170.
• 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 12th September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #964 (Saturday 19th March 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
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