UK National Lotto #1690

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 3rd March 2012:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,373,420	3	£4,120,260	30.7%
5+bonus	£66,724	19	£1,267,756	9.4%
5 match	£1,470	539	£792,330	5.9%
4 match	£57	30,335	£1,729,095	12.9%
3 match	£10	552,271	£5,522,710	41.1%
Totals	583,167		£13,432,151	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.0% rise	£29,880,650	61.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		16.3% rise	£18,617,759	38.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		6.4% rise	£48,498,409

Lotto HotPicks #1008 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	13	£91,000	8.6%
Pick 3	£450	1,199	£539,550	50.9%
Pick 2	£40	9,846	£393,840	37.2%
Pick 1	£5	7,050	£35,250	3.3%
Totals	18,108		£1,059,640	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £58.52.

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	31	225	46	271	6	23	6
2nd	20	165	48	213	16	13	13
3rd	40	225	24	249	5	102	5
4th	28	208	38	246	5	47	5
5th	07	202	27	229	2	164	2
6th	23	227	36	263	6	209	6
Bonus	42	204	33	237	12	55	12
Total	191	1456	252	1708	52	613	49
Avg.	27.3	208.0	36.0	244.0	7.4	87.6	7.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £23.03. One in every 51.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.95% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £10,057,590.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 42 wins totalling £530.

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 30th August 2012 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1691 (Wednesday 7th March 2012) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1689 (Wednesday 29th February 2012) [2 jackpot winners]

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