UK National Lotto #816

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 18th October 2003:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot       £963,129           5    £4,815,645      28.9%
5+bonus       £185,217           8    £1,481,736       8.9%
5 match           £968         956      £925,408       5.5%
4 match            £45      44,833    £2,017,485      12.1%
3 match            £10     743,607    £7,436,070      44.6%
Totals                     789,409   £16,676,344     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.4% fall   £37,104,280     64.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     22.2% fall   £20,805,304     35.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      9.5% fall   £57,909,584   

Lotto HotPicks #134 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           32       £224,000      16.0%
Pick 3              £450        1,299       £584,550      41.8%
Pick 2               £40       14,751       £590,040      42.2%
Totals                         16,082     £1,398,590     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       23       114      16      130       4       24        4 
2nd       11       107      19      126       1       16        1 
3rd       05        92      16      108      17       51       17 
4th       17        93      17      110      23        1        1 
5th       40       105       9      114      35      213       35 
6th       45       107      19      126       7      128        7 
Bonus     41        82      17       99      11       55       11 
Total    182       700     113      813      98      488       76
Avg.      26.0     100.0    16.1    116.1    14.0     69.7     10.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 8 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.13. One in every 47.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.13% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,980,891.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 16 wins totalling £160.
• 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.
• Manual draw comments will be available here shortly.
• Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 15th April 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #817 (Wednesday 22nd October 2003) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #815 (Wednesday 15th October 2003) [2 jackpot winners]

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