UK National Lotto #2888

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Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm BST on Saturday 26th 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           1    £1,000,000      24.7%
5 match         £1,750          28       £49,000       1.2%
4 match           £140       3,318      £464,520      11.5%
3 match            £30      84,657    £2,539,710      62.6%
2 match             £0     922,124            £0       0.0%
Totals                   1,010,128    £4,053,230     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      0.0% fall   £21,000,000     61.1% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      6.8% rise   £13,348,886     38.9% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      2.5% rise   £34,348,886   

Lotto HotPicks #2206 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £350,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4           £13,000            2        £26,000       6.6%
Pick 3              £800          225       £180,000      46.0%
Pick 2               £60        2,716       £162,960      41.6%
Pick 1                £6        3,796        £22,776       5.8%
Totals                          6,739       £391,736     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       13       306      35      341       1      229        1 
2nd       42       346      61      407      26      105       26 
3rd       12       332      66      398       9       15        9 
4th       41       320      48      368      10       86       10 
5th       50        83      19      102       6       23        6 
6th       45       336      79      415      12       13       12 
Bonus     43       339      58      397       3      198        3 
Total    246      2062     366     2428      67      669       67
Avg.      35.1     294.6    52.3    346.9     9.6     95.6      9.6

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 1 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £ 4.01. One in every 10.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=9.62% of players).
• If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £83,160,799.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 22 wins totalling £370.
• 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 22nd February 2024 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #2889 (Wednesday 30th August 2023) [No jackpot winners]
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