UK National Lotto #1172

Winning numbers drawn at 8.10pm GMT on Saturday 17th March 2007:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,403,495	2	£4,806,990	32.5%
5+bonus	£164,341	9	£1,479,069	10.0%
5 match	£1,805	512	£924,160	6.3%
4 match	£69	29,270	£2,019,630	13.7%
3 match	£10	554,400	£5,544,000	37.5%
Totals	584,193		£14,773,849	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.6% fall	£32,862,693	61.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		14.7% rise	£20,960,861	38.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.9% rise	£53,823,554

Lotto HotPicks #490 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	1	£130,000	13.1%
Pick 4	£7,000	14	£98,000	9.9%
Pick 3	£450	829	£373,050	37.7%
Pick 2	£40	8,790	£351,600	35.6%
Pick 1	£5	7,316	£36,580	3.7%
Totals	16,950		£989,230	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £58.36.

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	44	163	19	182	5	47	5
2nd	09	149	29	178	2	102	2
3rd	20	116	32	148	18	21	18
4th	01	142	22	164	2	31	2
5th	43	164	25	189	8	28	8
6th	14	140	25	165	3	22	3
Bonus	32	147	17	164	29	8	8
Total	163	1021	169	1190	67	259	46
Avg.	23.3	145.9	24.1	170.0	9.6	37.0	6.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.29. One in every 56.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.78% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,223,644.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 22 wins totalling £329.

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 13th September 2007 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1173 (Wednesday 21st March 2007) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1171 (Wednesday 14th March 2007) [2 jackpot winners]

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