UK National Lotto #1278

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 22nd March 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,048,419	4	£4,193,676	27.9%
5+bonus	£92,168	14	£1,290,352	8.6%
5 match	£1,046	771	£806,466	5.4%
4 match	£43	40,345	£1,734,835	11.5%
3 match	£10	701,499	£7,014,990	46.6%
Totals	742,633		£15,040,319	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.2% rise	£33,510,560	65.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.4% fall	£17,947,422	34.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.7% rise	£51,457,982

Lotto HotPicks #596 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	24	£168,000	11.0%
Pick 3	£450	1,557	£700,650	45.7%
Pick 2	£40	15,531	£621,240	40.6%
Pick 1	£5	8,401	£42,005	2.7%
Totals	25,513		£1,531,895	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £60.04.

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	14	152	29	181	5	1	1
2nd	45	157	35	192	7	21	7
3rd	48	166	23	189	2	25	2
4th	27	158	18	176	1	45	1
5th	07	161	23	184	9	3	3
6th	11	175	28	203	8	22	8
Bonus	37	141	33	174	2	8	2
Total	189	1110	189	1299	34	125	24
Avg.	27.0	158.6	27.0	185.6	4.9	17.9	3.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.25. One in every 45.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.22% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,229,108.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 22 wins totalling £220.

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 18th September 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1279 (Wednesday 26th March 2008) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1277 (Wednesday 19th March 2008) [2 jackpot winners]

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