UK National Lotto #2542

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm BST on Saturday 2nd May 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	3	£3,000,000	43.9%
5 match	£1,750	84	£147,000	2.1%
4 match	£140	4,441	£621,740	9.1%
3 match	£30	102,352	£3,070,560	44.9%
2 match	£0	989,983	£0	0.0%
Totals	106,880		£6,839,300	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		4.5% fall	£21,000,000	52.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		34.6% rise	£18,901,470	47.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		10.7% rise	£39,901,470

Lotto HotPicks #1860 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	7	£91,000	12.5%
Pick 3	£800	444	£355,200	49.0%
Pick 2	£60	4,115	£246,900	34.0%
Pick 1	£6	5,429	£32,574	4.5%
Totals	9,995		£725,674	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £72.60.

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	39	319	36	355	8	42	8
2nd	18	303	43	346	3	22	3
3rd	14	296	59	355	10	14	10
4th	44	319	40	359	6	113	6
5th	23	331	54	385	20	53	20
6th	52	61	7	68	9	26	9
Bonus	47	316	41	357	1	63	1
Total	237	1945	280	2225	57	333	57
Avg.	33.9	277.9	40.0	317.9	8.1	47.6	8.1

Comments:

The draw used ball set 7 in the Guinevere machine and the average main Lotto prize was £63.99. One in every 98.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.02% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £71,207,534.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 31 wins totalling £462.

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 29th October 2020 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2543 (Wednesday 6th May 2020) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2541 (Wednesday 29th April 2020) [1 jackpot winner]

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