UK National Lotto #1279

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 26th March 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,507,250	1	£2,507,250	31.4%
5+bonus	£70,132	11	£771,452	9.7%
5 match	£1,369	352	£481,888	6.0%
4 match	£58	18,065	£1,047,770	13.1%
3 match	£10	318,501	£3,185,010	39.8%
Totals	336,930		£7,993,370	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		0.9% fall	£17,792,547

Lotto HotPicks #597 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	19	£133,000	18.7%
Pick 3	£450	612	£275,400	38.8%
Pick 2	£40	6,898	£275,920	38.9%
Pick 1	£5	5,148	£25,740	3.6%
Totals	12,677		£710,060	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £56.01.

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	165	27	192	23	69	23
2nd	45	158	35	193	1	22	1
3rd	22	159	28	187	2	11	2
4th	48	167	23	190	1	26	1
5th	27	159	18	177	1	46	1
6th	03	151	25	176	23	28	23
Bonus	17	147	32	179	10	34	10
Total	195	1106	188	1294	61	236	61
Avg.	27.9	158.0	26.9	184.9	8.7	33.7	8.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.72. One in every 52.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.89% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,456,081.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 30 wins totalling £389.

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 draw expired at 5.30pm BST on Monday 22nd September 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1280 (Saturday 29th March 2008) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1278 (Saturday 22nd March 2008) [4 jackpot winners]

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