UK National Lotto #2218

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm GMT on Saturday 25th March 2017:

20 £20,000 raffle winning tickets: (Check)
£1,000,000 raffle winning ticket: GOLD 0380 4299

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,566,205	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£79,621	0	£0	0.0%
5 match	£2,328	36	£83,808	3.6%
4 match	£178	3,025	£538,450	22.9%
3 match	£25	69,007	£1,725,175	73.5%
2 match	£0	697,346	£0	0.0%
Sub-totals	72,068		£2,347,433	62.6% of prizes
Raffle	£20,000	20	£400,000	10.6% of prizes
£m Raffle	£1,000,000	1	£1,000,000	26.6% of prizes
Totals		72,089	£3,747,433	100.0% of prizes
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		6.0% fall	£23,516,308	63.7% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		10.1% fall	£13,420,990	36.3% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		7.6% fall	£36,937,298

Lotto HotPicks #1536 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	4	£52,000	9.0%
Pick 3	£800	389	£311,200	53.9%
Pick 2	£60	3,214	£192,840	33.4%
Pick 1	£6	3,517	£21,102	3.7%
Totals	7,124		£577,142	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £81.01.

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	54	22	1	23	9	98	9
2nd	53	15	3	18	7	46	7
3rd	58	20	0	20	3	Never	3
4th	48	270	41	311	23	5	5
5th	39	287	30	317	3	15	3
6th	52	19	1	20	12	128	12
Bonus	28	270	52	322	9	12	9
Total	332	903	128	1031	66	2522	48
Avg.	47.4	129.0	18.3	147.3	9.4	360.3	6.9

Comments:

The draw used ball set 3 in the Arthur machine and the average main Lotto prize was £32.57. One in every 163.2 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=0.61% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £81,408,580.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 2 wins totalling £50.

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 21st September 2017 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2219 (Wednesday 29th March 2017) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2217 (Wednesday 22nd March 2017) [3 jackpot winners]

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