UK National Lotto #856

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 6th March 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,966,481	2	£5,932,962	34.5%
5+bonus	£165,957	11	£1,825,527	10.6%
5 match	£2,412	473	£1,140,876	6.6%
4 match	£88	28,432	£2,502,016	14.6%
3 match	£10	580,225	£5,802,250	33.7%
Totals	609,143		£17,203,631	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		8.0% fall	£38,248,435	54.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		54.7% rise	£32,549,858	46.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		13.1% rise	£70,798,293

Lotto HotPicks #174 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	18	£126,000	13.9%
Pick 3	£450	659	£296,550	32.8%
Pick 2	£40	12,029	£481,160	53.3%
Totals	12,706		£903,710	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £71.12.

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	43	119	15	134	2	68	2
2nd	20	87	23	110	9	120	9
3rd	35	110	16	126	9	67	9
4th	19	105	7	112	2	126	2
5th	45	113	19	132	6	168	6
6th	17	100	18	118	6	16	6
Bonus	07	106	14	120	21	8	8
Total	186	740	112	852	55	573	42
Avg.	26.6	105.7	16.0	121.7	7.9	81.9	6.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £28.24. One in every 62.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.59% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,527,079.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £214.

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 2nd September 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #857 (Wednesday 10th March 2004) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #855 (Wednesday 3rd March 2004) [2 jackpot winners]

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