UK National Lotto #1256

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 5th January 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£4,556,043	1	£4,556,043	30.8%
5+bonus	£70,092	20	£1,401,840	9.5%
5 match	£1,457	601	£875,657	5.9%
4 match	£60	31,878	£1,912,680	13.0%
3 match	£10	603,518	£6,035,180	40.8%
Totals	636,018		£14,781,400	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.3% rise	£32,881,781	64.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		2.0% fall	£17,942,259	35.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.5% fall	£50,824,040

Lotto HotPicks #574 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	1	£130,000	11.4%
Pick 4	£7,000	19	£133,000	11.7%
Pick 3	£450	965	£434,250	38.1%
Pick 2	£40	10,135	£405,400	35.5%
Pick 1	£5	7,600	£38,000	3.3%
Totals	18,720		£1,140,650	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £60.93.

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	33	164	27	191	5	46	5
2nd	49	158	21	179	6	25	6
3rd	02	156	19	175	9	152	9
4th	20	126	36	162	7	22	7
5th	03	150	25	175	18	5	5
6th	12	162	27	189	6	41	6
Bonus	11	172	28	200	4	2	2
Total	130	1088	183	1271	55	293	40
Avg.	18.6	155.4	26.1	181.6	7.9	41.9	5.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.24. One in every 51.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.93% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,054,885.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 22 wins totalling £369.

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 3rd July 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1257 (Wednesday 9th January 2008) [4 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1255 (Wednesday 2nd January 2008) [1 jackpot winner]

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