UK National Lottery #542

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 3rd March 2001:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£830,568	8	£6,644,544	31.4%
5+bonus	£102,223	20	£2,044,460	9.6%
5 match	£1,336	956	£1,277,216	6.0%
4 match	£58	48,132	£2,791,656	13.2%
3 match	£10	844,013	£8,440,130	39.8%
Totals	893,129		£21,198,006	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.3% fall	£47,151,345	65.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.2% fall	£25,325,745	34.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.6% fall	£72,477,090

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	07	68	9	77	6	50	6
2nd	48	66	10	76	28	9	9
3rd	20	50	18	68	6	55	6
4th	14	72	13	85	4	66	4
5th	24	61	13	74	3	11	3
6th	38	88	15	103	9	26	9
Bonus	17	68	10	78	6	3	3
Total	168	473	88	561	62	220	40
Avg.	24.0	67.6	12.6	80.1	8.9	31.4	5.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Vyvyan machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.73. One in every 52.8 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 £9,836,701.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 11 wins totalling £110.

The 88th appearance of the number 38 has given it a lead of nine at the top of the main number frequency table. It also has a lead of 8 at the top of the winning number frequency table after its 103rd such appearance.

At the other end of the main frequency table, the number 20 has moved to within one of the rest after its 50th appearance (so, yes, all main numbers have now appeared at least 50 times).

Ticket sales were the worst for any Saturday draw in the history of the lottery - the 4th consecutive Saturday that this has happened. This, naturally enough, resulted in the lowest jackpot prize pool for a Saturday draw where the jackpot was won.

I matched nothing on my first ticket and one number on my second, but that's not exactly a surprise considering my dismal luck this year so far.

Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 30th August 2001 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lottery: #543 (Wednesday 7th March 2001) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lottery: #541 (Wednesday 28th February 2001) [5 jackpot winners]

UK National Lottery #542

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 3rd March 2001:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.49am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020