UK National Lotto #2397

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Winning numbers drawn at 8.00pm GMT on Wednesday 12th December 2018:

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

Category      Prize       Winners       Total        Percentages
Jackpot     £2,000,000           0            £0       0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus     £1,000,000           0            £0       0.0%
5 match         £1,750          26       £45,500       2.7%
4 match           £140       1,716      £240,240      14.3%
3 match            £30      46,615    £1,398,450      83.0%
2 match             £0     512,272            £0       0.0%
Totals                      48,357    £1,684,190     100.0%

Category                  Change       Figure
Ticket sales             5.9% fall   £12,700,000   

Lotto HotPicks #1715 results:

Category        Prize         Winners        Total     Percentages
Pick 5          £350,000            0             £0       0.0%
Pick 4           £13,000            4        £52,000      13.9%
Pick 3              £800          211       £168,800      45.0%
Pick 2               £60        2,235       £134,100      35.7%
Pick 1                £6        3,363        £20,178       5.4%
Totals                          5,813       £375,078     100.0%

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       51        32       2       34      14      197       14 
2nd       46       281      45      326       4       94        4 
3rd       59        40       4       44      10       24       10 
4th       31       304      60      364       3      190        3 
5th       03       282      49      331      20       57       20 
6th       22       285      49      334      14       59       14 
Bonus     53        28       9       37       6        9        6 
Total    265      1252     218     1470      71      630       71
Avg.      37.9     178.9    31.1    210.0    10.1     90.0     10.1

Comments:

• The draw used ball set 3 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £34.83. One in every 131.3 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=0.76% of players).
• If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £85,685,922.
• The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 15 wins totalling £263.
• 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 BST on Monday 10th June 2019 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

  Next Lotto: #2398 (Saturday 15th December 2018) [No jackpot winners]
  Previous Lotto: #2396 (Saturday 8th December 2018) [2 jackpot winners]

  

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