UK National Lotto #1298

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 31st May 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,607,873	2	£5,215,746	36.3%
5+bonus	£114,631	14	£1,604,834	11.2%
5 match	£2,526	397	£1,002,822	7.0%
4 match	£97	22,601	£2,192,297	15.2%
3 match	£10	435,466	£4,354,660	30.3%
Totals	458,480		£14,370,359	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.3% fall	£31,966,536	64.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.9% fall	£17,465,364	35.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.9% fall	£49,431,900

Lotto HotPicks #616 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	14	£98,000	12.3%
Pick 3	£450	793	£356,850	45.0%
Pick 2	£40	7,706	£308,240	38.9%
Pick 1	£5	6,034	£30,170	3.8%
Totals	14,547		£793,260	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £54.53.

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	39	159	15	174	10	18	10
2nd	22	161	28	189	14	30	14
3rd	15	147	25	172	8	2	2
4th	37	143	34	177	10	6	6
5th	34	148	27	175	5	104	5
6th	20	128	37	165	26	4	4
Bonus	17	151	33	184	8	19	8
Total	184	1037	199	1236	81	183	49
Avg.	26.3	148.1	28.4	176.6	11.6	26.1	7.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £31.34. One in every 69.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.43% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £8,925,230.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 21 wins totalling £354.

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 27th November 2008 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1299 (Wednesday 4th June 2008) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1297 (Wednesday 28th May 2008) [1 jackpot winner]

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