UK National Lotto #958 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 26th February 2005:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 145th single rollover draw and the 162nd rollover in total, included £3,411,489 (34.0%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £6,610,693 (66.0%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,011,091	2	£10,022,182	44.4%
5+bonus	£107,055	19	£2,034,045	9.0%
5 match	£2,416	526	£1,270,816	5.6%
4 match	£87	31,884	£2,773,908	12.3%
3 match	£10	646,510	£6,465,100	28.7%
Totals	678,941		£22,566,051	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.9% rise	£42,617,714	67.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.8% fall	£20,926,080	32.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.0% rise	£63,543,794

Lotto HotPicks #276 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	22	£154,000	16.5%
Pick 3	£450	774	£348,300	37.2%
Pick 2	£40	10,826	£433,040	46.3%
Totals	11,622		£935,340	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £80.48.

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	48	123	15	138	4	46	4
2nd	43	135	20	155	6	25	6
3rd	14	109	22	131	9	10	9
4th	08	113	20	133	8	65	8
5th	25	134	26	160	1	4	1
6th	40	126	13	139	9	15	9
Bonus	33	124	24	148	5	20	5
Total	211	864	140	1004	42	185	42
Avg.	30.1	123.4	20.0	143.4	6.0	26.4	6.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £33.24. One in every 62.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.59% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,213,983.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £180.

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 25th August 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #959 (Wednesday 2nd March 2005) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #957 (Wednesday 23rd February 2005) [No jackpot winners]

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