UK National Lotto #2542

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Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm BST on Saturday 2nd May 2020 - video:

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           3    £3,000,000      43.9%
5 match         £1,750          84      £147,000       2.1%
4 match           £140       4,441      £621,740       9.1%
3 match            £30     102,352    £3,070,560      44.9%
2 match             £0     989,983            £0       0.0%
Totals                     106,880    £6,839,300     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure        Percentages
Ticket sales  (Sat)      4.5% fall   £21,000,000     52.6% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (Wed)     34.6% rise   £18,901,470     47.4% of Sat+Wed  sales
Ticket sales  (S+W)     10.7% rise   £39,901,470   

Lotto HotPicks #1860 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £350,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4           £13,000            7        £91,000      12.5%
Pick 3              £800          444       £355,200      49.0%
Pick 2               £60        4,115       £246,900      34.0%
Pick 1                £6        5,429        £32,574       4.5%
Totals                          9,995       £725,674     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       39       319      36      355       8       42        8 
2nd       18       303      43      346       3       22        3 
3rd       14       296      59      355      10       14       10 
4th       44       319      40      359       6      113        6 
5th       23       331      54      385      20       53       20 
6th       52        61       7       68       9       26        9 
Bonus     47       316      41      357       1       63        1 
Total    237      1945     280     2225      57      333       57
Avg.      33.9     277.9    40.0    317.9     8.1     47.6      8.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 7 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £63.99. One in every 98.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.02% of players).
• If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £71,207,534.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 31 wins totalling £462.
• 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 29th October 2020 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

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