UK National Lotto #956 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 19th February 2005:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 144th single rollover draw and the 161st rollover in total, included £2,873,196 (32.6%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £5,948,060 (67.4%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£8,821,256	1	£8,821,256	40.7%
5+bonus	£73,206	25	£1,830,150	8.4%
5 match	£1,468	779	£1,143,572	5.3%
4 match	£60	41,337	£2,480,220	11.5%
3 match	£10	738,751	£7,387,510	34.1%
Totals	780,893		£21,662,708	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.7% rise	£41,835,753	66.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.1% fall	£21,088,172	33.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.1% rise	£62,923,925

Lotto HotPicks #274 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	19	£133,000	11.0%
Pick 3	£450	1,101	£495,450	40.8%
Pick 2	£40	14,647	£585,880	48.2%
Totals	15,767		£1,214,330	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £77.02.

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	35	122	20	142	10	6	6
2nd	16	103	20	123	18	39	18
3rd	10	126	20	146	12	30	12
4th	30	121	21	142	1	76	1
5th	19	124	8	132	4	7	4
6th	45	121	23	144	17	25	17
Bonus	06	118	21	139	14	71	14
Total	161	835	133	968	76	254	72
Avg.	23.0	119.3	19.0	138.3	10.9	36.3	10.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £27.74. One in every 53.6 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 £6,775,617.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £170.

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 5.30pm BST on Thursday 18th August 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #957 (Wednesday 23rd February 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #955 (Wednesday 16th February 2005) [No jackpot winners]

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