UK National Lotto #834

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 20th December 2003:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot       £961,451           6    £5,768,706      34.0%
5+bonus       £147,915          12    £1,774,980      10.5%
5 match         £2,149         516    £1,108,884       6.5%
4 match            £78      31,244    £2,437,032      14.4%
3 match            £10     586,793    £5,867,930      34.6%
Totals                     618,571   £16,957,532     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.7% rise   £37,692,435     57.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     15.6% fall   £27,478,977     42.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      6.9% fall   £65,171,412   

Lotto HotPicks #152 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 4            £7,000           16       £112,000      12.6%
Pick 3              £450          791       £355,950      40.2%
Pick 2               £40       10,465       £418,600      47.2%
Totals                         11,272       £886,550     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       116      16      132       6       42        6 
2nd       35       107      16      123       4       45        4 
3rd       44       121      14      135      21       97       21 
4th       46       104      18      122       1       27        1 
5th       08        98      19      117       3        4        3 
6th       39        92      11      103       2       17        2 
Bonus     31       113      23      136       8       35        8 
Total    226       751     117      868      45      267       45
Avg.      32.3     107.3    16.7    124.0     6.4     38.1      6.4

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 8 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £27.41. One in every 60.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.64% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,562,962.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 13 wins totalling £319.
• 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 17th June 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #835 (Wednesday 24th December 2003) [2 jackpot winners]
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