UK National Lotto #818

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 25th October 2003:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,747,728	3	£5,243,184	31.6%
5+bonus	£89,627	18	£1,613,286	9.7%
5 match	£1,573	641	£1,008,293	6.1%
4 match	£61	36,032	£2,197,952	13.2%
3 match	£10	654,111	£6,541,110	39.4%
Totals	690,805		£16,603,825	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.4% fall	£36,942,582	64.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.4% fall	£20,503,641	35.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.8% fall	£57,446,223

Lotto HotPicks #136 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	35	£245,000	19.3%
Pick 3	£450	1,086	£488,700	38.5%
Pick 2	£40	13,395	£535,800	42.2%
Totals	14,516		£1,269,500	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £87.46.

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	43	113	15	128	4	30	4
2nd	10	106	17	123	15	51	15
3rd	18	101	12	113	16	31	16
4th	21	84	23	107	11	7	7
5th	49	93	16	109	3	10	3
6th	04	93	12	105	12	113	12
Bonus	15	94	16	110	10	66	10
Total	160	684	111	795	71	308	67
Avg.	22.9	97.7	15.9	113.6	10.1	44.0	9.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.04. One in every 53.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.87% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,559,407.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 13 wins totalling £130.

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 22nd April 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #819 (Wednesday 29th October 2003) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #817 (Wednesday 22nd October 2003) [4 jackpot winners]

UK National Lotto #818

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 25th October 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