UK National Lotto #961

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 9th March 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,345,767           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus       £257,366           4    £1,029,464      17.2%
5 match         £2,846         226      £643,196      10.7%
4 match            £99      14,205    £1,406,295      23.5%
3 match            £10     290,727    £2,907,270      48.6%
Totals                     305,162    £5,986,225     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             0.5% fall   £20,758,753   

Lotto HotPicks #279 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           13        £91,000      13.5%
Pick 3              £450          595       £267,750      39.6%
Pick 2               £40        7,914       £316,560      46.9%
Totals                          8,522       £675,310     100.0%

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       14       110      22      132       3       13        3 
2nd       47       133      20      153      14       41       14 
3rd       25       135      26      161       3        7        3 
4th       40       127      13      140       3       18        3 
5th       21       101      29      130      38       10       10 
6th       39       105      12      117      24       63       24 
Bonus     20        93      26      119       7       53        7 
Total    206       804     148      952      92      205       64
Avg.      29.4     114.9    21.1    136.0    13.1     29.3      9.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 3 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.62. One in every 68.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.47% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,443,780.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £329.
• 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 5th September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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