UK National Lotto #1280

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 average Lotto HotPicks prize was £61.78.

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]
Previous Lotto: #1279 (Wednesday 26th March 2008) [1 jackpot winner]

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