UK National Lotto #962 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 12th March 2005:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 146th single rollover draw and the 163rd rollover in total, included £3,345,767 (36.2%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £5,885,661 (63.8%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£9,231,428	1	£9,231,428	43.1%
5+bonus	£164,633	11	£1,810,963	8.5%
5 match	£2,084	543	£1,131,612	5.3%
4 match	£72	34,234	£2,464,848	11.5%
3 match	£10	676,791	£6,767,910	31.6%
Totals	711,580		£21,406,761	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		6.6% rise	£40,192,198	65.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.5% fall	£20,758,753	34.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.1% rise	£60,950,951

Lotto HotPicks #280 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	30	£210,000	20.4%
Pick 3	£450	859	£386,550	37.6%
Pick 2	£40	10,807	£432,280	42.0%
Totals	11,696		£1,028,830	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £87.96.

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	08	114	21	135	4	2	2
2nd	02	119	16	135	11	48	11
3rd	01	117	19	136	32	10	10
4th	41	95	20	115	21	7	7
5th	09	122	26	148	7	16	7
6th	48	125	15	140	3	50	3
Bonus	29	112	23	135	7	21	7
Total	138	804	140	944	85	154	47
Avg.	19.7	114.9	20.0	134.9	12.1	22.0	6.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.08. One in every 56.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.77% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £6,219,576.

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 8th September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #963 (Wednesday 16th March 2005) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #961 (Wednesday 9th March 2005) [No jackpot winners]

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