UK National Lotto #1738

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 18th August 2012:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,159,664           2    £4,319,328      33.8%
5+bonus       £189,860           7    £1,329,020      10.4%
5 match         £2,097         396      £830,412       6.5%
4 match            £76      23,911    £1,817,236      14.2%
3 match            £10     448,742    £4,487,420      35.1%
Totals                     473,058   £12,783,416     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      2.1% rise   £28,430,712     64.8% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)      1.2% rise   £15,441,569     35.2% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)      1.8% rise   £43,872,281   

Lotto HotPicks #1056 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £130,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4            £7,000           19       £133,000      14.5%
Pick 3              £450        1,002       £450,900      49.0%
Pick 2               £40        7,740       £309,600      33.6%
Pick 1                £5        5,306        £26,530       2.9%
Totals                         14,067       £920,030     100.0%

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       38       241      49      290       9       64        9 
2nd       27       225      29      254       5       85        5 
3rd       46       205      36      241       1       29        1 
4th       21       187      45      232       4      125        4 
5th       42       210      34      244       8       33        8 
6th       44       239      29      268       2       81        2 
Bonus     41       187      32      219       7       14        7 
Total    259      1494     254     1748      36      431       36
Avg.      37.0     213.4    36.3    249.7     5.1     61.6      5.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 6 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £27.02. One in every 60.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.66% of players).
• If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,385,208.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 34 wins totalling £482.
• 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 14th February 2013 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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