UK National Lotto #2518

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm GMT on Saturday 8th February 2020 - video:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,800,000	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£1,000,000	0	£0	0.0%
5 match	£1,750	36	£63,000	2.3%
4 match	£140	2,938	£411,320	14.9%
3 match	£30	76,117	£2,283,510	82.8%
2 match	£0	824,891	£0	0.0%
Totals	79,091		£2,757,830	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		19.7% fall	£21,000,000	62.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		15.1% fall	£12,700,000	37.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		18.0% fall	£33,700,000

Lotto HotPicks #1836 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	1	£13,000	3.1%
Pick 3	£800	251	£200,800	48.1%
Pick 2	£60	2,954	£177,240	42.5%
Pick 1	£6	4,369	£26,214	6.3%
Totals	7,575		£417,254	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £55.08.

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	59	49	5	54	2	79	2
2nd	35	319	44	363	6	67	6
3rd	08	297	61	358	20	44	20
4th	42	310	56	366	1	72	1
5th	43	314	53	367	1	47	1
6th	54	59	6	65	4	40	4
Bonus	21	262	59	321	16	4	4
Total	262	1610	284	1894	50	353	38
Avg.	37.4	230.0	40.6	270.6	7.1	50.4	5.4

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £34.87. One in every 132.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=0.75% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £82,933,558.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 12 wins totalling £190.

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 6th August 2020 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2519 (Wednesday 12th February 2020) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #2517 (Wednesday 5th February 2020) [1 jackpot winner]

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