UK National Lotto #1424

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 15th August 2009:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£5,232,847	1	£5,232,847	37.1%
5+bonus	£201,263	8	£1,610,104	11.4%
5 match	£2,977	338	£1,006,226	7.1%
4 match	£120	18,410	£2,209,200	15.6%
3 match	£10	406,741	£4,067,410	28.8%
Totals	425,498		£14,125,787	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		5.1% fall	£31,401,287	64.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.2% fall	£17,387,418	35.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		3.4% fall	£48,788,705

Lotto HotPicks #742 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	10	£70,000	10.6%
Pick 3	£450	627	£282,150	42.9%
Pick 2	£40	6,959	£278,360	42.3%
Pick 1	£5	5,542	£27,710	4.2%
Totals	13,138		£658,220	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £50.10.

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	47	183	27	210	27	41	27
2nd	46	170	28	198	19	13	13
3rd	16	154	23	177	3	75	3
4th	32	185	20	205	2	15	2
5th	48	180	26	206	12	45	12
6th	31	195	36	231	7	11	7
Bonus	34	163	28	191	29	230	29
Total	254	1230	188	1418	99	430	93
Avg.	36.3	175.7	26.9	202.6	14.1	61.4	13.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 6 in the Amethyst machine and the average main Lotto prize was £33.20. One in every 73.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.36% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,991,467.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 29 wins totalling £290.

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 11th February 2010 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1425 (Wednesday 19th August 2009) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #1423 (Wednesday 12th August 2009) [1 jackpot winner]

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