UK National Lotto #1359

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Wednesday 31st December 2008:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,014,308	3	£3,042,924	30.9%
5+bonus	£85,116	11	£936,276	9.5%
5 match	£1,263	463	£584,769	5.9%
4 match	£56	22,790	£1,276,240	12.9%
3 match	£10	402,762	£4,027,620	40.8%
Totals	426,029		£9,867,829	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		3.9% fall	£21,954,216

Lotto HotPicks #677 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	9	£63,000	7.6%
Pick 3	£450	931	£418,950	50.7%
Pick 2	£40	7,969	£318,760	38.5%
Pick 1	£5	5,273	£26,365	3.2%
Totals	14,182		£827,075	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £58.32.

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	36	149	30	179	3	6	3
2nd	03	165	26	191	3	68	3
3rd	45	163	36	199	14	29	14
4th	11	187	29	216	3	34	3
5th	15	157	26	183	4	41	4
6th	33	176	31	207	6	9	6
Bonus	38	197	43	240	11	2	2
Total	181	1194	221	1415	44	189	35
Avg.	25.9	170.6	31.6	202.1	6.3	27.0	5.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Sapphire machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.16. One in every 51.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.94% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,494,585.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 29 wins totalling £331.

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 draw expired at 5.30pm BST on Monday 29th June 2009 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1360 (Saturday 3rd January 2009) [2 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1358 (Saturday 27th December 2008) [1 jackpot winner]

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