UK National Lotto #852

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 21st February 2004:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,485,736	2	£4,971,472	29.3%
5+bonus	£84,982	18	£1,529,676	9.0%
5 match	£1,414	676	£955,864	5.6%
4 match	£49	42,779	£2,096,171	12.4%
3 match	£10	742,250	£7,422,500	43.7%
Totals	785,725		£16,975,683	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		23.5% fall	£37,740,052	63.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		22.0% fall	£21,285,177	36.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		23.0% fall	£59,025,229

Lotto HotPicks #170 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	23	£161,000	14.5%
Pick 3	£450	984	£442,800	39.9%
Pick 2	£40	12,676	£507,040	45.6%
Totals	13,683		£1,110,840	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £81.18.

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	18	108	12	120	4	65	4
2nd	01	104	16	120	1	15	1
3rd	05	97	17	114	1	10	1
4th	48	110	14	124	17	183	17
5th	42	94	18	112	37	8	8
6th	08	101	19	120	7	22	7
Bonus	38	132	23	155	3	31	3
Total	160	746	119	865	70	334	41
Avg.	22.9	106.6	17.0	123.6	10.0	47.7	5.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.61. One in every 48.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.08% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,444,345.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £183.

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.

Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 11.00pm BST on Thursday 19th August 2004 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #853 (Wednesday 25th February 2004) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #851 (Wednesday 18th February 2004) [3 jackpot winners]

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