UK National Lotto #1296

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 24th May 2008:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,347,457           3    £4,042,371      28.1%
5+bonus        £59,228          21    £1,243,788       8.6%
5 match         £1,006         772      £776,632       5.4%
4 match            £42      40,243    £1,690,206      11.7%
3 match            £10     665,673    £6,656,730      46.2%
Totals                     706,712   £14,409,727     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      6.2% fall   £32,067,824     64.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.5% rise   £17,796,754     35.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      3.9% fall   £49,864,578   

Lotto HotPicks #614 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           35       £245,000      15.8%
Pick 3              £450        1,606       £722,700      46.7%
Pick 2               £40       13,526       £541,040      35.0%
Pick 1                £5        7,855        £39,275       2.5%
Totals                         23,022     £1,548,015     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       26       151      25      176      21       12       12 
2nd       06       167      33      200      13      114       13 
3rd       30       169      26      195       5      100        5 
4th       10       163      25      188       5       46        5 
5th       38       189      38      227       1       23        1 
6th       03       154      26      180       2        5        2 
Bonus     15       146      25      171       6       53        6 
Total    128      1139     198     1337      53      353       44
Avg.      18.3     162.7    28.3    191.0     7.6     50.4      6.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.39. One in every 45.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.20% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,222,269.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £180.
• 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 GMT on Thursday 20th November 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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