UK National Lotto #1268

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 16th February 2008:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,212,400           4    £4,849,600      31.5%
5+bonus        £93,261          16    £1,492,176       9.7%
5 match         £1,261         739      £931,879       6.0%
4 match            £58      35,053    £2,033,074      13.2%
3 match            £10     610,493    £6,104,930      39.6%
Totals                     646,305   £15,411,659     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      7.5% fall   £34,291,298     64.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.1% fall   £18,702,995     35.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      5.3% fall   £52,994,293   

Lotto HotPicks #586 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           17       £119,000      10.6%
Pick 3              £450        1,175       £528,750      46.9%
Pick 2               £40       11,065       £442,600      39.3%
Pick 1                £5        7,279        £36,395       3.2%
Totals                         19,536     £1,126,745     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       48       164      23      187       3       15        3 
2nd       09       161      29      190       1      198        1 
3rd       37       140      31      171       5       40        5 
4th       21       141      34      175      16       22       16 
5th       24       152      28      180       1        6        1 
6th       18       155      19      174       4       78        4 
Bonus     22       157      28      185       4       52        4 
Total    179      1070     192     1262      34      411       34
Avg.      25.6     152.9    27.4    180.3     4.9     58.7      4.9

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 5 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.85. One in every 53.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.88% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,908,854.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 24 wins totalling £352.
• 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 14th August 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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