UK National Lotto #1698

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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 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.

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