UK National Lotto #1276

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 15th March 2008:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £5,298,298           1    £5,298,298      35.6%
5+bonus       £203,780           8    £1,630,240      11.0%
5 match         £2,799         364    £1,018,836       6.8%
4 match            £96      23,340    £2,240,640      15.0%
3 match            £10     470,469    £4,704,690      31.6%
Totals                     494,182   £14,892,704     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      1.0% fall   £33,097,166     64.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.4% fall   £18,025,030     35.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.1% fall   £51,122,196   

Lotto HotPicks #594 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           16       £112,000      15.4%
Pick 3              £450          637       £286,650      39.5%
Pick 2               £40        7,431       £297,240      40.9%
Pick 1                £5        6,090        £30,450       4.2%
Totals                         14,174       £726,340     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       165      23      188       8       23        8 
2nd       02       160      19      179      10      172       10 
3rd       40       166      19      185      10        5        5 
4th       49       161      21      182       4       45        4 
5th       23       166      29      195      22       16       16 
6th       37       141      32      173       8        6        6 
Bonus     29       148      30      178       4       34        4 
Total    228      1107     173     1280      66      301       53
Avg.      32.6     158.1    24.7    182.9     9.4     43.0      7.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 8 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.14. One in every 67.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.49% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,039,945.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 28 wins totalling £340.
• 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 11th September 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #1277 (Wednesday 19th March 2008) [2 jackpot winners]
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