UK National Lotto #2398 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm GMT on Saturday 15th December 2018:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 424th single rollover draw and the 747th rollover in total, included £2,000,000 (49.3%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £2,057,861 (50.7%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£4,057,861	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£1,000,000	1	£1,000,000	20.0%
5 match	£1,750	79	£138,250	2.8%
4 match	£140	4,728	£661,920	13.2%
3 match	£30	106,843	£3,205,290	64.0%
2 match	£0	1,007,742	£0	0.0%
Totals	111,651		£5,005,460	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		6.6% fall	£21,020,030	62.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		5.9% fall	£12,700,000	37.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		6.3% fall	£33,720,030

Lotto HotPicks #1716 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	5	£65,000	11.1%
Pick 3	£800	330	£264,000	45.0%
Pick 2	£60	3,828	£229,680	39.1%
Pick 1	£6	4,658	£27,948	4.8%
Totals	8,821		£586,628	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £66.50.

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	43	299	51	350	2	182	2
2nd	34	287	42	329	25	100	25
3rd	05	280	52	332	4	20	4
4th	35	300	43	343	7	331	7
5th	26	275	45	320	14	49	14
6th	49	299	39	338	4	16	4
Bonus	19	289	41	330	18	106	18
Total	211	2029	313	2342	74	804	74
Avg.	30.1	289.9	44.7	334.6	10.6	114.9	10.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £44.83. One in every 94.1 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.06% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £81,730,163.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 46 wins totalling £998.

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 BST on Thursday 13th June 2019 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2399 (Wednesday 19th December 2018) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2397 (Wednesday 12th December 2018) [No jackpot winners]

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