UK National Lotto #1356

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 20th December 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£350,384	10	£3,503,840	24.0%
5+bonus	£29,137	37	£1,078,069	7.4%
5 match	£490	1,374	£673,260	4.6%
4 match	£28	52,538	£1,471,064	10.0%
3 match	£10	788,960	£7,889,600	54.0%
Totals	842,919		£14,615,833	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.4% rise	£32,506,120	64.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		18.9% fall	£17,697,867	35.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		7.4% fall	£50,203,987

Lotto HotPicks #674 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	33	£231,000	13.3%
Pick 3	£450	1,917	£862,650	49.8%
Pick 2	£40	14,916	£596,640	34.4%
Pick 1	£5	8,653	£43,265	2.5%
Totals	25,519		£1,733,555	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £67.93.

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	44	184	23	207	5	34	5
2nd	11	186	29	215	3	31	3
3rd	09	177	33	210	3	40	3
4th	23	182	32	214	3	12	3
5th	03	164	26	190	7	65	7
6th	36	148	30	178	30	3	3
Bonus	25	181	38	219	14	13	13
Total	151	1222	211	1433	65	198	37
Avg.	21.6	174.6	30.1	204.7	9.3	28.3	5.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.34. One in every 38.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.59% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,962,782.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 31 wins totalling £348.

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.

The jackpot prize pool was the lowest ever for a Saturday draw where the jackpot was won.

Unclaimed prizes from this week expired at 5.30pm BST on Thursday 18th June 2009 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1357 (Wednesday 24th December 2008) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1355 (Wednesday 17th December 2008) [1 jackpot winner]

UK National Lotto #1356

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 20th December 2008:

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© Richard K. Lloyd & Connect Internet Solutions Limited 2020
Disclaimer - This is an unofficial UK lottery site
Auto-generated at 10.32am BST on Thursday 16th July 2020