UK National Lotto #2486

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm BST on Saturday 19th October 2019:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 24th consecutive rollover draw and the 826th rollover in total, included £13,023,710 (342.7%) rolled over from the previous lottery.

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,800,000	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£1,000,000	1	£1,000,000	18.9%
5 match	£1,750	63	£110,250	2.1%
4 match	£140	4,676	£654,640	12.4%
3 match	£30	117,408	£3,522,240	66.6%
2 match	£0	1,117,264	£0	0.0%
Totals	122,148		£5,287,130	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		12.0% fall	£21,000,000	53.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		21.7% rise	£18,587,180	47.0% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.1% rise	£39,587,180

Lotto HotPicks #1804 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	3	£39,000	4.4%
Pick 3	£800	614	£491,200	55.4%
Pick 2	£60	5,352	£321,120	36.2%
Pick 1	£6	5,884	£35,304	4.0%
Totals	11,853		£886,624	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £74.80.

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	31	315	63	378	35	21	21
2nd	33	305	50	355	8	131	8
3rd	52	53	6	59	7	53	7
4th	15	277	52	329	5	14	5
5th	17	300	50	350	20	63	20
6th	08	293	61	354	4	12	4
Bonus	13	252	29	281	4	133	4
Total	169	1795	311	2106	83	427	69
Avg.	24.1	256.4	44.4	300.9	11.9	61.0	9.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £43.28. One in every 86.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.16% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £71,005,332.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 26 wins totalling £616.

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 16th April 2020 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2487 (Wednesday 23rd October 2019) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2485 (Wednesday 16th October 2019) [1 jackpot winner]

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