UK National Lotto #957

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 average Lotto HotPicks prize was £85.09.

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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