UK National Lotto #968

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 2nd April 2005:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,613,151	2	£5,226,302	31.4%
5+bonus	£84,636	19	£1,608,084	9.7%
5 match	£1,754	573	£1,005,042	6.0%
4 match	£57	38,573	£2,198,661	13.2%
3 match	£10	660,776	£6,607,760	39.7%
Totals	699,943		£16,645,849	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		5.8% fall	£37,018,536	59.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		23.6% rise	£25,076,603	40.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.2% rise	£62,095,139

Lotto HotPicks #286 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 4	£7,000	17	£119,000	10.9%
Pick 3	£450	1,013	£455,850	41.7%
Pick 2	£40	12,928	£517,120	47.4%
Totals	13,958		£1,091,970	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £78.23.

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	27	124	15	139	8	4	4
2nd	26	113	21	134	1	2	1
3rd	42	113	22	135	20	3	3
4th	34	109	19	128	20	33	20
5th	18	120	15	135	4	58	4
6th	29	114	23	137	1	6	1
Bonus	36	111	23	134	11	24	11
Total	212	804	138	942	65	130	44
Avg.	30.3	114.9	19.7	134.6	9.3	18.6	6.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Opal machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.78. One in every 52.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.89% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,245,147.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £140.

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 29th September 2005 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #969 (Wednesday 6th April 2005) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #967 (Wednesday 30th March 2005) [3 jackpot winners]

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