UK National Lotto #1686

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 18th February 2012:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,147,797	2	£4,295,594	32.3%
5+bonus	£132,172	10	£1,321,720	9.9%
5 match	£1,696	487	£825,952	6.2%
4 match	£68	26,504	£1,802,272	13.6%
3 match	£10	504,844	£5,048,440	38.0%
Totals	531,847		£13,293,978	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		1.0% fall	£29,576,003	64.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		9.4% fall	£16,202,117	35.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		4.1% fall	£45,778,120

Lotto HotPicks #1004 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£130,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£7,000	17	£119,000	13.0%
Pick 3	£450	928	£417,600	45.5%
Pick 2	£40	8,754	£350,160	38.1%
Pick 1	£5	6,286	£31,430	3.4%
Totals	15,985		£918,190	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £57.44.

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	19	202	27	229	25	8	8
2nd	22	197	32	229	5	90	5
3rd	30	222	34	256	1	37	1
4th	33	225	36	261	1	10	1
5th	41	179	30	209	4	21	4
6th	02	213	26	239	7	13	7
Bonus	24	206	32	238	2	52	2
Total	171	1444	217	1661	45	231	28
Avg.	24.4	206.3	31.0	237.3	6.4	33.0	4.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 4 in the Lancelot machine and the average main Lotto prize was £25.00. One in every 55.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.80% of players).

If all 13,983,816 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £9,546,812.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 33 wins totalling £412.

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 BST on Thursday 16th August 2012 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #1687 (Wednesday 22nd February 2012) [3 jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #1685 (Wednesday 15th February 2012) [2 jackpot winners]

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