UK National Lotto #1698

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 31st March 2012:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£4,449,039	1	£4,449,039	33.3%
5+bonus	£124,448	11	£1,368,928	10.3%
5 match	£2,138	400	£855,200	6.4%
4 match	£79	23,608	£1,865,032	14.0%
3 match	£10	480,737	£4,807,370	36.0%
Totals	504,757		£13,345,569	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.0% rise	£29,696,035	65.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.4% fall	£15,892,937	34.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.2% rise	£45,588,972

Lotto HotPicks #1016 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	9	£63,000	8.7%
Pick 3	£450	720	£324,000	44.5%
Pick 2	£40	7,682	£307,280	42.2%
Pick 1	£5	6,615	£33,075	4.6%
Totals	15,026		£727,355	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £48.41.

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	02	215	26	241	7	25	7
2nd	49	213	32	245	9	57	9
3rd	40	227	25	252	4	3	3
4th	47	220	32	252	24	105	24
5th	18	207	23	230	5	169	5
6th	05	193	34	227	20	90	20
Bonus	19	202	28	230	12	20	12
Total	180	1477	200	1677	81	469	80
Avg.	25.7	211.0	28.6	239.6	11.6	67.0	11.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £26.44. One in every 58.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.70% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,866,323.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 34 wins totalling £423.

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 27th September 2012 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1699 (Wednesday 4th April 2012) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1697 (Wednesday 28th March 2012) [1 jackpot winner]

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