UK National Lotto #1280

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 29th March 2008:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,367,330           2    £4,734,660      31.7%
5+bonus        £72,840          20    £1,456,800       9.8%
5 match         £1,597         570      £910,290       6.1%
4 match            £61      32,440    £1,978,840      13.3%
3 match            £10     583,614    £5,836,140      39.1%
Totals                     616,646   £14,916,730     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.9% fall   £33,202,790     65.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      0.9% fall   £17,792,547     34.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      0.9% fall   £50,995,337   

Lotto HotPicks #598 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            1       £130,000      10.9%
Pick 4            £7,000           16       £112,000       9.4%
Pick 3              £450        1,072       £482,400      40.5%
Pick 2               £40       10,724       £428,960      36.0%
Pick 1                £5        7,458        £37,290       3.2%
Totals                         19,271     £1,190,650     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       43       175      28      203       7       21        7 
2nd       11       176      28      204       2       24        2 
3rd       28       157      29      186      13       81       13 
4th       40       167      19      186       4        9        4 
5th       31       172      34      206       6       58        6 
6th       17       148      32      180      11        1        1 
Bonus     39       156      15      171       7      256        7 
Total    209      1151     185     1336      50      450       40
Avg.      29.9     164.4    26.4    190.9     7.1     64.3      5.7

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 6 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £24.19. One in every 53.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.86% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,496,907.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 26 wins totalling £260.
• 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 25th September 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #1281 (Wednesday 2nd April 2008) [2 jackpot winners]
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