UK National Lotto #1336 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 11th October 2008:

20 21 23 24 27 28 (33)

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 214th single rollover draw and the 243rd rollover in total, included £2,494,580 (31.8%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £5,358,584 (68.2%).

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot       £713,924          11    £7,853,164      43.1%
5+bonus       £235,542           7    £1,648,794       9.1%
5 match         £1,506         684    £1,030,104       5.7%
4 match            £78      28,976    £2,260,128      12.4%
3 match            £10     541,306    £5,413,060      29.7%
Totals                     570,984   £18,205,250     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      2.1% fall   £34,929,000     66.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.0% fall   £17,874,202     33.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.4% fall   £52,803,202

Lotto HotPicks #654 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           40       £280,000      21.9%
Pick 3              £450        1,157       £520,650      40.8%
Pick 2               £40       10,982       £439,280      34.4%
Pick 1                £5        7,459        £37,295       2.9%
Totals                         19,638     £1,277,225     100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £65.04.

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       23       179      30      209      14       37       14 
2nd       21       147      34      181       4       90        4 
3rd       27       166      19      185       3       50        3 
4th       28       165      30      195       2       30        2 
5th       20       130      37      167       6       42        6 
6th       24       162      28      190       1       74        1 
Bonus     33       171      30      201      13       29       13 
Total    176      1120     208     1328      43      352       43
Avg.      25.1     160.0    29.7    189.7     6.1     50.3      6.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £31.88. One in every 61.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.63% of players).
If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,636,705.
The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 24 wins totalling £339.
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.
All six of the main numbers were the same colour (pink), which has never happened before. There have been four previous draws with five main balls the same colour, including 5 pink ones for one previous draw (and that spookily had 4 of its 5 pink balls the same as tonight's!).
There were three separate main number pairs with no triples or quads, which was also a unique occurrence to date.
It was the second lowest ever individual jackpot prize for a single rollover draw, only beaten by the mother of all freaky draws that had 133 jackpot winners.
Although this was the 13th time that there'd been less 5+bonus winners than 6-match winners, it was also had the the joint-second largest difference (4) between the two tiers in those cases. It tied with draw #1305 (less than 4 months ago) and was well beaten by the difference of 33 for the record-holding draw #366.
Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 5.30pm BST on Thursday 9th April 2009 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1337 (Wednesday 15th October 2008) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1335 (Wednesday 8th October 2008) [No jackpot winners]

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