UK National Lotto #2468

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm BST on Saturday 17th August 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	1	£1,000,000	21.2%
5 match	£1,750	53	£92,750	2.0%
4 match	£140	3,903	£546,420	11.6%
3 match	£30	102,409	£3,072,270	65.2%
2 match	£0	1,059,661	£0	0.0%
Totals	106,366		£4,711,440	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		8.8% fall	£21,000,000	53.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		29.6% rise	£18,535,464	46.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		5.9% rise	£39,535,464

Lotto HotPicks #1786 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	1	£13,000	2.1%
Pick 3	£800	364	£291,200	48.1%
Pick 2	£60	4,543	£272,580	45.0%
Pick 1	£6	4,883	£29,298	4.8%
Totals	9,791		£606,078	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £61.90.

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	10	299	40	339	11	32	11
2nd	41	280	42	322	9	30	9
3rd	58	52	4	56	3	81	3
4th	06	292	61	353	16	11	11
5th	46	288	45	333	5	165	5
6th	09	303	49	352	2	12	2
Bonus	45	294	68	362	4	58	4
Total	215	1808	309	2117	50	389	45
Avg.	30.7	258.3	44.1	302.4	7.1	55.6	6.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £44.29. One in every 98.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.01% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £70,956,450.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 19 wins totalling £310.

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 GMT on Thursday 13th February 2020 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2469 (Wednesday 21st August 2019) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2467 (Wednesday 14th August 2019) [2 jackpot winners]

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