UK National Lotto #1276

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 15th March 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,298,298	1	£5,298,298	35.6%
5+bonus	£203,780	8	£1,630,240	11.0%
5 match	£2,799	364	£1,018,836	6.8%
4 match	£96	23,340	£2,240,640	15.0%
3 match	£10	470,469	£4,704,690	31.6%
Totals	494,182		£14,892,704	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.0% fall	£33,097,166	64.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.4% fall	£18,025,030	35.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.1% fall	£51,122,196

Lotto HotPicks #594 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	16	£112,000	15.4%
Pick 3	£450	637	£286,650	39.5%
Pick 2	£40	7,431	£297,240	40.9%
Pick 1	£5	6,090	£30,450	4.2%
Totals	14,174		£726,340	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £51.24.

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	48	165	23	188	8	23	8
2nd	02	160	19	179	10	172	10
3rd	40	166	19	185	10	5	5
4th	49	161	21	182	4	45	4
5th	23	166	29	195	22	16	16
6th	37	141	32	173	8	6	6
Bonus	29	148	30	178	4	34	4
Total	228	1107	173	1280	66	301	53
Avg.	32.6	158.1	24.7	182.9	9.4	43.0	7.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £30.14. One in every 67.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.49% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,039,945.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 28 wins totalling £340.

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 11th September 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1277 (Wednesday 19th March 2008) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1275 (Wednesday 12th March 2008) [1 jackpot winner]

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