UK National Lotto #838

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 3rd January 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,712,245	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£125,543	14	£1,757,602	16.6%
5 match	£2,739	401	£1,098,339	10.3%
4 match	£99	24,398	£2,415,402	22.7%
3 match	£10	535,030	£5,350,300	50.4%
Totals	559,843		£10,621,643	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		4.1% rise	£36,300,860	60.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		8.0% fall	£23,429,335	39.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.0% fall	£59,730,195

Lotto HotPicks #156 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	12	£84,000	9.3%
Pick 3	£450	759	£341,550	37.9%
Pick 2	£40	11,903	£476,120	52.8%
Totals	12,674		£901,670	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £71.14.

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	49	94	16	110	20	30	20
2nd	18	105	12	117	2	51	2
3rd	40	107	9	116	11	235	11
4th	23	117	16	133	4	46	4
5th	17	96	17	113	14	23	14
6th	22	94	21	115	2	12	2
Bonus	10	107	18	125	17	71	17
Total	179	720	109	829	70	468	70
Avg.	25.6	102.9	15.6	118.4	10.0	66.9	10.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £18.97. One in every 64.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.54% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £5,685,712.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £290.

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 week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 1st July 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #839 (Wednesday 7th January 2004) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #837 (Wednesday 31st December 2003) [1 jackpot winner]

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