UK National Lotto #1259

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 16th January 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,246,767	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£76,812	9	£691,308	11.8%
5 match	£772	559	£431,548	7.3%
4 match	£39	24,146	£941,694	16.0%
3 match	£10	381,321	£3,813,210	64.9%
Totals	406,035		£5,877,760	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		0.4% rise	£18,075,369

Lotto HotPicks #577 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	20	£140,000	13.9%
Pick 3	£450	1,052	£473,400	47.1%
Pick 2	£40	8,937	£357,480	35.6%
Pick 1	£5	6,774	£33,870	3.4%
Totals	16,783		£1,004,750	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £59.87.

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	29	144	29	173	51	17	17
2nd	17	146	31	177	20	14	14
3rd	22	156	27	183	9	43	9
4th	42	156	27	183	10	124	10
5th	08	148	32	180	6	39	6
6th	13	138	15	153	4	157	4
Bonus	43	171	28	199	9	1	1
Total	174	1059	189	1248	109	395	61
Avg.	24.9	151.3	27.0	178.3	15.6	56.4	8.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £14.48. One in every 44.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.25% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,240,847.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 26 wins totalling £296.

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 draw expired at 5.30pm BST on Monday 14th July 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1260 (Saturday 19th January 2008) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1258 (Saturday 12th January 2008) [2 jackpot winners]

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