UK National Lotto #2298

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 30th December 2017:

20 £20,000 raffle winning tickets: (Check)
£1,000,000 raffle winning ticket: JADE 1915 8760

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,472,243	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£39,647	2	£79,294	2.8%
5 match	£1,304	64	£83,456	2.9%
4 match	£146	3,664	£534,944	18.7%
3 match	£25	86,388	£2,159,700	75.6%
2 match	£0	886,602	£0	0.0%
Sub-totals	90,118		£2,857,394	67.1% of prizes
Raffle	£20,000	20	£400,000	9.3% of prizes
£m Raffle	£1,000,000	1	£1,000,000	23.4% of prizes
Totals		90,139	£4,257,394	100.0% of prizes
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		26.4% fall	£23,419,582	52.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		41.3% rise	£20,899,858	47.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.9% fall	£44,319,440

Lotto HotPicks #1616 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	6	£78,000	11.4%
Pick 3	£800	443	£354,400	51.6%
Pick 2	£60	3,795	£227,700	33.2%
Pick 1	£6	4,376	£26,256	3.8%
Totals	8,620		£686,356	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £79.62.

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	42	279	53	332	9	11	9
2nd	58	33	1	34	1	36	1
3rd	55	26	5	31	18	83	18
4th	37	262	62	324	6	63	6
5th	47	290	37	327	2	160	2
6th	33	289	49	338	18	62	18
Bonus	34	276	42	318	33	247	33
Total	306	1455	249	1704	87	662	87
Avg.	43.7	207.9	35.6	243.4	12.4	94.6	12.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £31.71. One in every 129.9 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=0.77% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £57,545,262.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £323.

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 28th June 2018 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2299 (Wednesday 3rd January 2018) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2297 (Wednesday 27th December 2017) [1 jackpot winner]

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