UK National Lotto #960

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 5th March 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,282,794	1	£5,282,794	31.2%
5+bonus	£67,728	24	£1,625,472	9.6%
5 match	£1,707	595	£1,015,665	6.0%
4 match	£62	35,808	£2,220,096	13.1%
3 match	£10	680,305	£6,803,050	40.1%
Totals	716,733		£16,947,077	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		11.6% fall	£37,693,935	64.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.3% fall	£20,871,459	35.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		7.8% fall	£58,565,394

Lotto HotPicks #278 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	24	£168,000	12.0%
Pick 3	£450	1,311	£589,950	42.2%
Pick 2	£40	16,033	£641,320	45.8%
Totals	17,368		£1,399,270	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £80.57.

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	49	112	17	129	5	99	5
2nd	27	123	14	137	10	49	10
3rd	26	111	20	131	25	42	25
4th	19	125	8	133	4	11	4
5th	24	110	20	130	7	38	7
6th	06	120	22	142	1	3	1
Bonus	08	113	21	134	2	67	2
Total	159	814	122	936	54	309	54
Avg.	22.7	116.3	17.4	133.7	7.7	44.1	7.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.64. One in every 52.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.90% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,580,497.

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 1st September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #961 (Wednesday 9th March 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #959 (Wednesday 2nd March 2005) [3 jackpot winners]

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