UK National Lotto #2885

Winning numbers drawn at 8.00pm BST on Wednesday 16th August 2023:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,000,000	1	£2,000,000	34.2%
5+bonus	£1,000,000	2	£2,000,000	34.1%
5 match	£1,750	31	£54,250	0.9%
4 match	£140	1,979	£277,060	4.7%
3 match	£30	50,899	£1,526,970	26.1%
2 match	£0	551,668	£0	0.0%
Totals	604,580		£5,858,280	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		16.9% fall	£12,500,000

Lotto HotPicks #2203 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 3	£800	193	£154,400	48.2%
Pick 2	£60	2,433	£145,980	45.5%
Pick 1	£6	3,347	£20,082	6.3%
Totals	5,973		£320,462	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £53.65.

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	08	330	68	398	5	58	5
2nd	51	85	10	95	25	89	25
3rd	10	341	46	387	2	42	2
4th	43	339	57	396	39	195	39
5th	32	332	49	381	14	69	14
6th	59	85	14	99	11	31	11
Bonus	26	321	55	376	32	64	32
Total	229	1833	299	2132	128	548	128
Avg.	32.7	261.9	42.7	304.6	18.3	78.3	18.3

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £ 9.69. One in every 10.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=9.67% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £78,950,116.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £290.

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 draw expired at 5.30pm GMT on Monday 12th February 2024 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2886 (Saturday 19th August 2023) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2884 (Saturday 12th August 2023) [3 jackpot winners]

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