UK National Lotto #1296

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 24th May 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,347,457	3	£4,042,371	28.1%
5+bonus	£59,228	21	£1,243,788	8.6%
5 match	£1,006	772	£776,632	5.4%
4 match	£42	40,243	£1,690,206	11.7%
3 match	£10	665,673	£6,656,730	46.2%
Totals	706,712		£14,409,727	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		6.2% fall	£32,067,824	64.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.5% rise	£17,796,754	35.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		3.9% fall	£49,864,578

Lotto HotPicks #614 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	35	£245,000	15.8%
Pick 3	£450	1,606	£722,700	46.7%
Pick 2	£40	13,526	£541,040	35.0%
Pick 1	£5	7,855	£39,275	2.5%
Totals	23,022		£1,548,015	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £67.24.

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	26	151	25	176	21	12	12
2nd	06	167	33	200	13	114	13
3rd	30	169	26	195	5	100	5
4th	10	163	25	188	5	46	5
5th	38	189	38	227	1	23	1
6th	03	154	26	180	2	5	2
Bonus	15	146	25	171	6	53	6
Total	128	1139	198	1337	53	353	44
Avg.	18.3	162.7	28.3	191.0	7.6	50.4	6.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £20.39. One in every 45.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.20% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,222,269.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 18 wins totalling £180.

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 GMT on Thursday 20th November 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1297 (Wednesday 28th May 2008) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1295 (Wednesday 21st May 2008) [1 jackpot winner]

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