UK National Lotto #1298

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 31st May 2008:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,607,873           2    £5,215,746      36.3%
5+bonus       £114,631          14    £1,604,834      11.2%
5 match         £2,526         397    £1,002,822       7.0%
4 match            £97      22,601    £2,192,297      15.2%
3 match            £10     435,466    £4,354,660      30.3%
Totals                     458,480   £14,370,359     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.3% fall   £31,966,536     64.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.9% fall   £17,465,364     35.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.9% fall   £49,431,900   

Lotto HotPicks #616 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           14        £98,000      12.3%
Pick 3              £450          793       £356,850      45.0%
Pick 2               £40        7,706       £308,240      38.9%
Pick 1                £5        6,034        £30,170       3.8%
Totals                         14,547       £793,260     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       39       159      15      174      10       18       10 
2nd       22       161      28      189      14       30       14 
3rd       15       147      25      172       8        2        2 
4th       37       143      34      177      10        6        6 
5th       34       148      27      175       5      104        5 
6th       20       128      37      165      26        4        4 
Bonus     17       151      33      184       8       19        8 
Total    184      1037     199     1236      81      183       49
Avg.      26.3     148.1    28.4    176.6    11.6     26.1      7.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 5 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £31.34. One in every 69.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.43% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,925,230.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 21 wins totalling £354.
• 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 27th November 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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