UK National Lotto #2886

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm BST on Saturday 19th August 2023:

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	5	£5,000,000	43.5%
5 match	£1,750	161	£281,750	2.5%
4 match	£140	8,962	£1,254,680	10.9%
3 match	£30	164,810	£4,944,300	43.1%
2 match	£0	1,248,617	£0	0.0%
Totals	1,422,555		£11,480,730	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		23.6% fall	£21,000,000	62.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		16.9% fall	£12,500,000	37.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		21.2% fall	£33,500,000

Lotto HotPicks #2204 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	9	£117,000	8.8%
Pick 3	£800	1,004	£803,200	60.6%
Pick 2	£60	6,258	£375,480	28.3%
Pick 1	£6	5,168	£31,008	2.3%
Totals	12,439		£1,326,688	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £106.66.

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	352	68	420	15	16	15
2nd	28	333	60	393	4	28	4
3rd	07	329	44	373	17	30	17
4th	37	328	68	396	6	35	6
5th	17	337	61	398	2	22	2
6th	02	317	46	363	19	4	4
Bonus	08	330	69	399	1	59	1
Total	130	2326	416	2742	64	194	49
Avg.	18.6	332.3	59.4	391.7	9.1	27.7	7.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £ 8.07. One in every 7.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=13.55% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £85,026,678.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 44 wins totalling £981.

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 15th February 2024 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2887 (Wednesday 23rd August 2023) [1 jackpot winner]
Previous Lotto: #2885 (Wednesday 16th August 2023) [1 jackpot winner]

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