UK National Lotto #1538 (Single Rollover Draw)

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Saturday 18th September 2010:

The table below is courtesy of Camelot's phone line (0845 9100 000 *10). The jackpot prize pool for this, the 256th single rollover draw and the 294th rollover in total, included £2,851,121 (39.0%) rolled over from the previous lottery, in addition to the original jackpot prize pool of £4,450,708 (61.0%).

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,433,943	3	£7,301,829	42.0%
5+bonus	£97,817	14	£1,369,438	7.9%
5 match	£1,593	537	£855,441	4.9%
4 match	£60	30,958	£1,857,480	10.7%
3 match	£10	600,310	£6,003,100	34.5%
Totals	631,822		£17,387,288	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		6.0% rise	£32,360,354	65.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		0.4% fall	£17,003,278	34.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		3.7% rise	£49,363,632

Lotto HotPicks #856 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	1	£130,000	9.8%
Pick 4	£7,000	23	£161,000	12.2%
Pick 3	£450	1,246	£560,700	42.4%
Pick 2	£40	10,829	£433,160	32.8%
Pick 1	£5	7,275	£36,375	2.8%
Totals	19,374		£1,321,235	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £68.20.

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	05	178	31	209	7	53	7
2nd	17	185	34	219	6	100	6
3rd	32	199	21	220	6	17	6
4th	16	169	27	196	4	14	4
5th	04	185	35	220	2	5	2
6th	20	155	43	198	1	18	1
Bonus	03	189	35	224	6	24	6
Total	97	1260	226	1486	32	231	32
Avg.	13.9	180.0	32.3	212.3	4.6	33.0	4.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £27.52. One in every 51.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.95% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,118,027.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 21 wins totalling £210.

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 17th March 2011 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1539 (Wednesday 22nd September 2010) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1537 (Wednesday 15th September 2010) [No jackpot winners]

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