UK National Lotto #2885

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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 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.

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