UK National Lotto #1738

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 average Lotto HotPicks prize was £65.40.

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.

Next Lotto: #1739 (Wednesday 22nd August 2012) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1737 (Wednesday 15th August 2012) [1 jackpot winner]

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