UK National Lotto #1338

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 18th October 2008:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £1,134,695           4    £4,538,780      30.8%
5+bonus        £66,502          21    £1,396,542       9.5%
5 match         £1,270         687      £872,490       5.9%
4 match            £53      35,723    £1,893,319      12.9%
3 match            £10     602,293    £6,022,930      40.9%
Totals                     638,728   £14,724,061     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      6.2% fall   £32,780,801     64.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.0% rise   £17,881,972     35.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      4.1% fall   £50,662,773   

Lotto HotPicks #656 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           21       £147,000      11.3%
Pick 3              £450        1,455       £654,750      50.2%
Pick 2               £40       11,558       £462,320      35.5%
Pick 1                £5        7,765        £38,825       3.0%
Totals                         20,799     £1,302,895     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       03       162      26      188       9       47        9 
2nd       12       173      32      205      27       15       15 
3rd       30       175      27      202      21        5        5 
4th       40       176      20      196       4       41        4 
5th       39       164      16      180      25        4        4 
6th       10       167      25      192      19       88       19 
Bonus     23       179      31      210       2       39        2 
Total    157      1196     177     1373     107      239       58
Avg.      22.4     170.9    25.3    196.1    15.3     34.1      8.3

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.05. One in every 51.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.95% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,108,424.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 23 wins totalling £286.
• 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 16th April 2009 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #1339 (Wednesday 22nd October 2008) [No jackpot winners]
  Previous Lotto: #1337 (Wednesday 15th October 2008) [2 jackpot winners]

  

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