UK National Lotto #1426

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 22nd August 2009:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£4,588,768	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£83,054	17	£1,411,918	14.9%
5 match	£2,111	418	£882,398	9.3%
4 match	£70	27,515	£1,926,050	20.3%
3 match	£10	526,701	£5,267,010	55.5%
Totals	554,651		£9,487,376	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.3% fall	£31,314,587	64.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.8% fall	£17,247,858	35.5% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		0.5% fall	£48,562,445

Lotto HotPicks #744 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	17	£119,000	13.1%
Pick 3	£450	808	£363,600	40.2%
Pick 2	£40	9,736	£389,440	43.1%
Pick 1	£5	6,457	£32,285	3.6%
Totals	17,018		£904,325	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £53.14.

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	36	158	30	188	4	73	4
2nd	18	171	21	192	5	19	5
3rd	44	190	24	214	5	52	5
4th	43	189	31	220	15	22	15
5th	24	175	29	204	18	46	18
6th	23	192	34	226	1	14	1
Bonus	21	157	39	196	3	28	3
Total	209	1232	208	1440	51	254	51
Avg.	29.9	176.0	29.7	205.7	7.3	36.3	7.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Topaz machine and the average main Lotto prize was £17.11. One in every 56.5 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.77% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £7,245,578.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 24 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 GMT on Thursday 18th February 2010 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1427 (Wednesday 26th August 2009) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1425 (Wednesday 19th August 2009) [1 jackpot winner]

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