UK National Lotto #2579

Winning numbers drawn at 8.00pm BST on Wednesday 9th September 2020 - video:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£2,000,000	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£1,000,000	1	£1,000,000	33.8%
5 match	£1,750	26	£45,500	1.5%
4 match	£140	2,178	£304,920	10.3%
3 match	£30	53,674	£1,610,220	54.4%
2 match	£0	579,210	£0	0.0%
Totals	55,879		£2,960,640	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure
Ticket sales		17.0% fall	£12,700,000

Lotto HotPicks #1897 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	2	£26,000	7.4%
Pick 3	£800	192	£153,600	43.5%
Pick 2	£60	2,506	£150,360	42.6%
Pick 1	£6	3,856	£23,136	6.5%
Totals	6,556		£353,096	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £53.86.

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	56	53	4	57	9	77	9
2nd	48	302	48	350	19	28	19
3rd	50	44	13	57	6	43	6
4th	13	260	32	292	11	19	11
5th	33	319	51	370	13	27	13
6th	11	329	56	385	1	47	1
Bonus	55	61	9	70	2	164	2
Total	266	1368	213	1581	61	405	61
Avg.	38.0	195.4	30.4	225.9	8.7	57.9	8.7

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £52.98. One in every 113.6 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=0.88% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £65,800,741.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 14 wins totalling £240.

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 8th March 2021 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2580 (Saturday 12th September 2020) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2578 (Saturday 5th September 2020) [3 jackpot winners]

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