UK National Lotto #965

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 23rd March 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,006,219	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£102,776	9	£924,984	15.1%
5 match	£2,398	241	£577,918	9.5%
4 match	£76	16,556	£1,258,256	20.6%
3 match	£10	335,110	£3,351,100	54.8%
Totals	351,916		£6,112,258	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		1.4% fall	£20,293,983

Lotto HotPicks #283 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	27	£189,000	19.0%
Pick 3	£450	844	£379,800	38.2%
Pick 2	£40	10,643	£425,720	42.8%
Totals	11,514		£994,520	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £86.37.

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	25	136	26	162	4	11	4
2nd	14	111	22	133	4	17	4
3rd	12	122	19	141	12	87	12
4th	38	148	24	172	15	103	15
5th	30	123	21	144	8	85	8
6th	32	128	13	141	8	2	2
Bonus	42	112	22	134	17	46	17
Total	193	880	147	1027	68	351	62
Avg.	27.6	125.7	21.0	146.7	9.7	50.1	8.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.37. One in every 57.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.73% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,086,409.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 25 wins totalling £374.

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 19th September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #966 (Saturday 26th March 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #964 (Saturday 19th March 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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