UK National Lotto #1278

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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 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.

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