UK National Lotto #2418

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm GMT on Saturday 23rd February 2019:

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	2	£2,000,000	30.1%
5 match	£1,750	74	£129,500	1.9%
4 match	£140	5,536	£775,040	11.7%
3 match	£30	124,563	£3,736,890	56.3%
2 match	£0	1,146,497	£0	0.0%
Totals	130,175		£6,641,430	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		17.8% fall	£21,000,000	51.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		24.2% rise	£19,877,252	48.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.6% fall	£40,877,252

Lotto HotPicks #1736 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	11	£143,000	16.5%
Pick 3	£800	510	£408,000	47.1%
Pick 2	£60	4,739	£284,340	32.9%
Pick 1	£6	5,014	£30,084	3.5%
Totals	10,274		£865,424	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £84.23.

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	294	54	348	3	43	3
2nd	48	290	47	337	11	1	1
3rd	40	319	40	359	8	125	8
4th	38	317	67	384	4	9	4
5th	09	296	47	343	15	27	15
6th	06	287	60	347	6	14	6
Bonus	57	29	8	37	13	24	13
Total	240	1832	323	2155	60	243	50
Avg.	34.3	261.7	46.1	307.9	8.6	34.7	7.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £51.02. One in every 80.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.24% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £65,732,608.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 50 wins totalling £816.

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 22nd August 2019 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2419 (Wednesday 27th February 2019) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2417 (Wednesday 20th February 2019) [2 jackpot winners]

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