UK National Lotto #1272

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 1st March 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£748,069	6	£4,488,414	29.5%
5+bonus	£53,117	26	£1,381,042	9.1%
5 match	£1,099	785	£862,715	5.7%
4 match	£48	39,524	£1,897,152	12.5%
3 match	£10	657,396	£6,573,960	43.2%
Totals	697,737		£15,203,283	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.3% fall	£33,790,057	64.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.6% fall	£18,304,164	35.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.4% fall	£52,094,221

Lotto HotPicks #590 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	26	£182,000	14.1%
Pick 3	£450	1,278	£575,100	44.6%
Pick 2	£40	12,267	£490,680	38.1%
Pick 1	£5	8,360	£41,800	3.2%
Totals	21,931		£1,289,580	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £58.80.

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	12	165	28	193	7	8	7
2nd	08	151	32	183	2	52	2
3rd	20	127	36	163	16	38	16
4th	29	148	29	177	1	30	1
5th	01	150	25	175	10	9	9
6th	49	160	21	181	15	41	15
Bonus	04	150	27	177	11	3	3
Total	123	1051	198	1249	62	181	53
Avg.	17.6	150.1	28.3	178.4	8.9	25.9	7.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £21.79. One in every 48.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.06% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,384,557.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 17 wins totalling £215.

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 28th August 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1273 (Wednesday 5th March 2008) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1271 (Wednesday 27th February 2008) [1 jackpot winner]

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