UK National Lotto #2397

Winning numbers drawn at 8.00pm GMT on Wednesday 12th December 2018:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,000,000	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£1,000,000	0	£0	0.0%
5 match	£1,750	26	£45,500	2.7%
4 match	£140	1,716	£240,240	14.3%
3 match	£30	46,615	£1,398,450	83.0%
2 match	£0	512,272	£0	0.0%
Totals	48,357		£1,684,190	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		5.9% fall	£12,700,000

Lotto HotPicks #1715 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	4	£52,000	13.9%
Pick 3	£800	211	£168,800	45.0%
Pick 2	£60	2,235	£134,100	35.7%
Pick 1	£6	3,363	£20,178	5.4%
Totals	5,813		£375,078	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £64.52.

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	51	32	2	34	14	197	14
2nd	46	281	45	326	4	94	4
3rd	59	40	4	44	10	24	10
4th	31	304	60	364	3	190	3
5th	03	282	49	331	20	57	20
6th	22	285	49	334	14	59	14
Bonus	53	28	9	37	6	9	6
Total	265	1252	218	1470	71	630	71
Avg.	37.9	178.9	31.1	210.0	10.1	90.0	10.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £34.83. One in every 131.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=0.76% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £85,685,922.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £263.

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 draw expired at 5.30pm BST on Monday 10th June 2019 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2398 (Saturday 15th December 2018) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2396 (Saturday 8th December 2018) [2 jackpot winners]

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