UK National Lotto #798

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 16th August 2003:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,264,099	1	£5,264,099	31.3%
5+bonus	£85,248	19	£1,619,712	9.6%
5 match	£1,871	541	£1,012,211	6.0%
4 match	£66	33,489	£2,210,274	13.1%
3 match	£10	672,276	£6,722,760	40.0%
Totals	706,326		£16,829,056	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		6.5% fall	£37,435,617	64.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.8% rise	£20,555,271	35.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.0% fall	£57,990,888

Lotto HotPicks #116 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	21	£147,000	13.9%
Pick 3	£450	934	£420,300	39.8%
Pick 2	£40	12,243	£489,720	46.3%
Totals	13,198		£1,057,020	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £80.09.

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	01	97	15	112	3	5	3
2nd	09	99	22	121	8	7	7
3rd	42	88	14	102	9	25	9
4th	45	104	19	123	3	110	3
5th	12	101	15	116	6	13	6
6th	10	103	17	120	1	31	1
Bonus	27	102	13	115	15	17	15
Total	146	694	115	809	45	208	44
Avg.	20.9	99.1	16.4	115.6	6.4	29.7	6.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.83. One in every 53.0 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 £8,514,092.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 9 wins totalling £190.

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 GMT on Thursday 12th February 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #799 (Wednesday 20th August 2003) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #797 (Wednesday 13th August 2003) [4 jackpot winners]

UK National Lotto #798

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 16th August 2003:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.43am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020