UK National Lotto #961

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 9th March 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,345,767	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£257,366	4	£1,029,464	17.2%
5 match	£2,846	226	£643,196	10.7%
4 match	£99	14,205	£1,406,295	23.5%
3 match	£10	290,727	£2,907,270	48.6%
Totals	305,162		£5,986,225	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		0.5% fall	£20,758,753

Lotto HotPicks #279 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	13	£91,000	13.5%
Pick 3	£450	595	£267,750	39.6%
Pick 2	£40	7,914	£316,560	46.9%
Totals	8,522		£675,310	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £79.24.

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	14	110	22	132	3	13	3
2nd	47	133	20	153	14	41	14
3rd	25	135	26	161	3	7	3
4th	40	127	13	140	3	18	3
5th	21	101	29	130	38	10	10
6th	39	105	12	117	24	63	24
Bonus	20	93	26	119	7	53	7
Total	206	804	148	952	92	205	64
Avg.	29.4	114.9	21.1	136.0	13.1	29.3	9.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Moonstone machine and the average main Lotto prize was £19.62. One in every 68.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.47% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,443,780.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £329.

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 draw expired at 5.30pm BST on Monday 5th September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #962 (Saturday 12th March 2005) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #960 (Saturday 5th March 2005) [1 jackpot winner]

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