UK National Lotto #968

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 2nd April 2005:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,613,151           2    £5,226,302      31.4%
5+bonus        £84,636          19    £1,608,084       9.7%
5 match         £1,754         573    £1,005,042       6.0%
4 match            £57      38,573    £2,198,661      13.2%
3 match            £10     660,776    £6,607,760      39.7%
Totals                     699,943   £16,645,849     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      5.8% fall   £37,018,536     59.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     23.6% rise   £25,076,603     40.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      4.2% rise   £62,095,139   

Lotto HotPicks #286 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           17       £119,000      10.9%
Pick 3              £450        1,013       £455,850      41.7%
Pick 2               £40       12,928       £517,120      47.4%
Totals                         13,958     £1,091,970     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       27       124      15      139       8        4        4 
2nd       26       113      21      134       1        2        1 
3rd       42       113      22      135      20        3        3 
4th       34       109      19      128      20       33       20 
5th       18       120      15      135       4       58        4 
6th       29       114      23      137       1        6        1 
Bonus     36       111      23      134      11       24       11 
Total    212       804     138      942      65      130       44
Avg.      30.3     114.9    19.7    134.6     9.3     18.6      6.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.78. One in every 52.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.89% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,245,147.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £140.
• 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 29th September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #969 (Wednesday 6th April 2005) [No jackpot winners]
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