UK National Lotto #2990

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm BST on Saturday 17th August 2024 - 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	2	£2,000,000	33.8%
5 match	£1,750	54	£94,500	1.6%
4 match	£140	4,246	£594,440	10.0%
3 match	£30	107,660	£3,229,800	54.6%
2 match	£0	1,023,607	£0	0.0%
Totals	1,135,569		£5,918,740	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		2.2% fall	£20,000,000	60.8% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		7.3% rise	£12,878,988	39.2% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		1.3% rise	£32,878,988

Lotto HotPicks #2308 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	4	£52,000	6.5%
Pick 3	£800	587	£469,600	59.1%
Pick 2	£60	4,112	£246,720	31.1%
Pick 1	£6	4,330	£25,980	3.3%
Totals	9,033		£794,300	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £87.93.

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	03	345	54	399	6	123	6
2nd	52	114	13	127	5	92	5
3rd	10	352	47	399	3	30	3
4th	18	343	49	392	12	129	12
5th	06	338	73	411	4	14	4
6th	59	98	16	114	2	10	2
Bonus	49	359	48	407	3	76	3
Total	197	1949	300	2249	35	474	35
Avg.	28.1	278.4	42.9	321.3	5.0	67.7	5.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 5 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £ 5.21. One in every 8.8 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=11.36% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £84,161,832.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 13 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 week expired at 5.30pm GMT on Thursday 13th February 2025 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2991 (Wednesday 21st August 2024) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2989 (Wednesday 14th August 2024) [1 jackpot winner]

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