UK National Lotto #2400 (Triple Rollover Draw) (Super Draw #78)

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm GMT on Saturday 22nd December 2018:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 57th triple rollover draw and the 749th rollover in total, included £5,341,733 (35.6%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £9,658,267 (64.4%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£7,500,000	2	£15,000,000	65.8%
5+bonus	£1,000,000	2	£2,000,000	8.8%
5 match	£1,750	89	£155,750	0.7%
4 match	£140	6,618	£926,520	4.1%
3 match	£30	156,964	£4,708,920	20.6%
2 match	£0	1,468,520	£0	0.0%
Totals	163,675		£22,791,190	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		7.0% rise	£22,500,000	63.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		3.3% rise	£13,114,116	36.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		5.6% rise	£35,614,116

Lotto HotPicks #1718 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	7	£91,000	9.7%
Pick 3	£800	614	£491,200	52.2%
Pick 2	£60	5,394	£323,640	34.4%
Pick 1	£6	5,794	£34,764	3.7%
Totals	11,809		£940,604	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £79.65.

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	32	281	39	320	8	10	8
2nd	24	288	43	331	1	156	1
3rd	15	270	50	320	8	81	8
4th	04	284	56	340	10	21	10
5th	17	289	48	337	10	4	4
6th	56	38	3	41	1	16	1
Bonus	31	304	61	365	3	193	3
Total	179	1754	300	2054	41	481	35
Avg.	25.6	250.6	42.9	293.4	5.9	68.7	5.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £139.25. One in every 68.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.45% of players).

This was the 78th Super Draw and the jackpot pool was a guaranteed £15,000,000.

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £78,380,329.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 19 wins totalling £250.

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 20th June 2019 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2401 (Wednesday 26th December 2018) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2399 (Wednesday 19th December 2018) [No jackpot winners]

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