UK National Lotto #964

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 19th March 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,278,446	1	£5,278,446	31.9%
5+bonus	£47,768	34	£1,624,112	9.8%
5 match	£1,658	612	£1,014,696	6.1%
4 match	£63	34,917	£2,199,771	13.3%
3 match	£10	644,725	£6,447,250	38.9%
Totals	680,289		£16,564,275	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		8.2% fall	£36,884,688	64.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.9% fall	£20,575,839	35.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		5.7% fall	£57,460,527

Lotto HotPicks #282 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	19	£133,000	14.8%
Pick 3	£450	718	£323,100	36.1%
Pick 2	£40	11,000	£440,000	49.1%
Totals	11,737		£896,100	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £76.35.

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	18	119	15	134	9	54	9
2nd	33	126	24	150	5	6	5
3rd	06	121	22	143	4	7	4
4th	49	113	17	130	4	103	4
5th	08	115	21	136	2	4	2
6th	43	136	21	157	6	5	5
Bonus	27	123	15	138	4	53	4
Total	184	853	135	988	34	232	33
Avg.	26.3	121.9	19.3	141.1	4.9	33.1	4.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.35. One in every 54.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.84% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,649,187.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 25 wins totalling £282.

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 5.30pm BST on Thursday 15th September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #965 (Wednesday 23rd March 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #963 (Wednesday 16th March 2005) [2 jackpot winners]

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