UK National Lotto #959

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 average Lotto HotPicks prize was £79.93.

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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