UK National Lotto #1256

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 5th January 2008:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £4,556,043           1    £4,556,043      30.8%
5+bonus        £70,092          20    £1,401,840       9.5%
5 match         £1,457         601      £875,657       5.9%
4 match            £60      31,878    £1,912,680      13.0%
3 match            £10     603,518    £6,035,180      40.8%
Totals                     636,018   £14,781,400     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.3% rise   £32,881,781     64.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      2.0% fall   £17,942,259     35.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.5% fall   £50,824,040   

Lotto HotPicks #574 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            1       £130,000      11.4%
Pick 4            £7,000           19       £133,000      11.7%
Pick 3              £450          965       £434,250      38.1%
Pick 2               £40       10,135       £405,400      35.5%
Pick 1                £5        7,600        £38,000       3.3%
Totals                         18,720     £1,140,650     100.0%

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       33       164      27      191       5       46        5 
2nd       49       158      21      179       6       25        6 
3rd       02       156      19      175       9      152        9 
4th       20       126      36      162       7       22        7 
5th       03       150      25      175      18        5        5 
6th       12       162      27      189       6       41        6 
Bonus     11       172      28      200       4        2        2 
Total    130      1088     183     1271      55      293       40
Avg.      18.6     155.4    26.1    181.6     7.9     41.9      5.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 3 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.24. One in every 51.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.93% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,054,885.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 22 wins totalling £369.
• 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 3rd July 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #1257 (Wednesday 9th January 2008) [4 jackpot winners]
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