UK National Lotto #2008

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 21st March 2015:

50 £20,000 raffle winning tickets: (Check)

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,564,628	2	£3,129,256	24.7%
5+bonus	£41,629	6	£249,774	2.0%
5 match	£564	376	£212,064	1.7%
4 match	£60	18,632	£1,117,920	8.8%
3 match	£25	317,353	£7,933,825	62.8%
Sub-totals	336,369		£12,642,839	92.6% of prizes
Raffle	£20,000	50	£1,000,000	7.3% of prizes
Totals		336,419	£13,642,839	100.0% of prizes
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.7% fall	£29,777,632	65.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.7% fall	£15,460,718	34.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.7% fall	£45,238,350

Lotto HotPicks #1326 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	18	£126,000	12.3%
Pick 3	£450	1,152	£518,400	50.9%
Pick 2	£40	8,484	£339,360	33.3%
Pick 1	£5	7,089	£35,445	3.5%
Totals	16,743		£1,019,205	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £60.87.

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	07	240	30	270	1	31	1
2nd	49	254	35	289	9	24	9
3rd	01	226	41	267	8	29	8
4th	37	228	51	279	17	82	17
5th	21	217	47	264	3	85	3
6th	05	239	40	279	21	103	21
Bonus	30	266	40	306	4	9	4
Total	150	1670	284	1954	63	363	63
Avg.	21.4	238.6	40.6	279.1	9.0	51.9	9.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £37.59. One in every 44.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=2.26% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £22,057,976.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 33 wins totalling £422.

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 17th September 2015 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2009 (Wednesday 25th March 2015) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2007 (Wednesday 18th March 2015) [1 jackpot winner]

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