UK National Lotto #2886

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Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm BST on Saturday 19th August 2023:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £3,800,000           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus     £1,000,000           5    £5,000,000      43.5%
5 match         £1,750         161      £281,750       2.5%
4 match           £140       8,962    £1,254,680      10.9%
3 match            £30     164,810    £4,944,300      43.1%
2 match             £0   1,248,617            £0       0.0%
Totals                   1,422,555   £11,480,730     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)     23.6% fall   £21,000,000     62.7% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     16.9% fall   £12,500,000     37.3% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     21.2% fall   £33,500,000   

Lotto HotPicks #2204 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £350,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4           £13,000            9       £117,000       8.8%
Pick 3              £800        1,004       £803,200      60.6%
Pick 2               £60        6,258       £375,480      28.3%
Pick 1                £6        5,168        £31,008       2.3%
Totals                         12,439     £1,326,688     100.0%

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       352      68      420      15       16       15 
2nd       28       333      60      393       4       28        4 
3rd       07       329      44      373      17       30       17 
4th       37       328      68      396       6       35        6 
5th       17       337      61      398       2       22        2 
6th       02       317      46      363      19        4        4 
Bonus     08       330      69      399       1       59        1 
Total    130      2326     416     2742      64      194       49
Avg.      18.6     332.3    59.4    391.7     9.1     27.7      7.0

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £ 8.07. One in every 7.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=13.55% of players).
• If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £85,026,678.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 44 wins totalling £981.
• 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 GMT on Thursday 15th February 2024 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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