UK National Lotto #1358

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 27th December 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,430,704	1	£3,430,704	32.5%
5+bonus	£95,963	11	£1,055,593	10.0%
5 match	£1,773	372	£659,556	6.2%
4 match	£67	21,347	£1,430,249	13.5%
3 match	£10	399,876	£3,998,760	37.8%
Totals	421,607		£10,574,862	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		27.6% fall	£23,547,265	50.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		29.0% rise	£22,835,666	49.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		7.6% fall	£46,382,931

Lotto HotPicks #676 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	13	£91,000	12.3%
Pick 3	£450	714	£321,300	43.3%
Pick 2	£40	7,537	£301,480	40.6%
Pick 1	£5	5,596	£27,980	3.8%
Totals	13,860		£741,760	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £53.52.

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	10	173	25	198	1	108	1
2nd	39	167	16	183	6	24	6
3rd	42	166	29	195	23	58	23
4th	40	178	20	198	19	61	19
5th	24	165	28	193	1	96	1
6th	07	169	24	193	11	43	11
Bonus	05	153	25	178	11	4	4
Total	167	1171	167	1338	72	394	65
Avg.	23.9	167.3	23.9	191.1	10.3	56.3	9.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.08. One in every 55.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.79% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,690,070.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 31 wins totalling £373.

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 June 2009 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1359 (Wednesday 31st December 2008) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1357 (Wednesday 24th December 2008) [1 jackpot winner]

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