UK National Lotto #2424

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm GMT on Saturday 16th March 2019:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,800,000	1	£3,800,000	45.7%
5+bonus	£1,000,000	1	£1,000,000	12.0%
5 match	£1,750	52	£91,000	1.1%
4 match	£140	3,861	£540,540	6.5%
3 match	£30	96,085	£2,882,550	34.7%
2 match	£0	970,731	£0	0.0%
Totals	100,000		£8,314,090	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		13.5% fall	£21,000,000	54.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		15.7% rise	£17,691,440	45.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		2.2% fall	£38,691,440

Lotto HotPicks #1742 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	7	£91,000	13.9%
Pick 3	£800	387	£309,600	47.3%
Pick 2	£60	3,741	£224,460	34.3%
Pick 1	£6	4,854	£29,124	4.5%
Totals	8,989		£654,184	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £72.78.

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	59	42	4	46	12	51	12
2nd	37	270	62	332	46	189	46
3rd	06	288	60	348	6	20	6
4th	42	295	54	349	6	49	6
5th	32	284	39	323	18	34	18
6th	26	278	46	324	9	18	9
Bonus	38	317	68	385	6	15	6
Total	240	1774	333	2107	103	376	103
Avg.	34.3	253.4	47.6	301.0	14.7	53.7	14.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £83.14. One in every 105.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=0.95% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £76,755,078.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 29 wins totalling £380.

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 12th September 2019 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2425 (Wednesday 20th March 2019) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2423 (Wednesday 13th March 2019) [2 jackpot winners]

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