UK National Lotto #2259

Winning numbers drawn at 8.30pm BST on Wednesday 16th August 2017:

20 £20,000 raffle winning tickets: (Check)
£1,000,000 raffle winning ticket: RUBY 1446 3782

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£1,903,798	1	£1,903,798	43.2%
5+bonus	£42,505	0	£0	0.0%
5 match	£612	73	£44,676	1.0%
4 match	£68	4,195	£285,260	6.5%
3 match	£25	87,078	£2,176,950	49.3%
2 match	£0	734,192	£0	0.0%
Sub-totals	91,347		£4,410,684	75.9% of prizes
Raffle	£20,000	20	£400,000	6.8% of prizes
£m Raffle	£1,000,000	1	£1,000,000	17.2% of prizes
Totals		91,368	£5,810,684	100.0% of prizes
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		9.3% fall	£12,554,046

Lotto HotPicks #1577 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	12	£156,000	16.0%
Pick 3	£800	562	£449,600	46.1%
Pick 2	£60	5,675	£340,500	34.9%
Pick 1	£6	4,954	£29,724	3.0%
Totals	11,203		£975,824	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £87.10.

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	28	273	52	325	19	41	19
2nd	07	269	34	303	9	31	9
3rd	45	263	60	323	3	18	3
4th	17	275	46	321	28	1	1
5th	44	289	37	326	17	2	2
6th	43	285	51	336	16	43	16
Bonus	54	28	2	30	13	139	13
Total	238	1682	282	1964	105	275	63
Avg.	34.0	240.3	40.3	280.6	15.0	39.3	9.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 8 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £48.28. One in every 68.7 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=1.46% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £85,733,806.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 36 wins totalling £657.

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 2018 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2260 (Saturday 19th August 2017) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2258 (Saturday 12th August 2017) [1 jackpot winner]

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