UK National Lotto #1338

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 18th October 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,134,695	4	£4,538,780	30.8%
5+bonus	£66,502	21	£1,396,542	9.5%
5 match	£1,270	687	£872,490	5.9%
4 match	£53	35,723	£1,893,319	12.9%
3 match	£10	602,293	£6,022,930	40.9%
Totals	638,728		£14,724,061	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		6.2% fall	£32,780,801	64.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.0% rise	£17,881,972	35.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.1% fall	£50,662,773

Lotto HotPicks #656 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	21	£147,000	11.3%
Pick 3	£450	1,455	£654,750	50.2%
Pick 2	£40	11,558	£462,320	35.5%
Pick 1	£5	7,765	£38,825	3.0%
Totals	20,799		£1,302,895	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £62.64.

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	03	162	26	188	9	47	9
2nd	12	173	32	205	27	15	15
3rd	30	175	27	202	21	5	5
4th	40	176	20	196	4	41	4
5th	39	164	16	180	25	4	4
6th	10	167	25	192	19	88	19
Bonus	23	179	31	210	2	39	2
Total	157	1196	177	1373	107	239	58
Avg.	22.4	170.9	25.3	196.1	15.3	34.1	8.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.05. One in every 51.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.95% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,108,424.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 23 wins totalling £286.

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 16th April 2009 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1339 (Wednesday 22nd October 2008) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1337 (Wednesday 15th October 2008) [2 jackpot winners]

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