UK National Lotto #2888

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm BST on Saturday 26th August 2023:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,800,000	0	£0	0.0% - rolled over
5+bonus	£1,000,000	1	£1,000,000	24.7%
5 match	£1,750	28	£49,000	1.2%
4 match	£140	3,318	£464,520	11.5%
3 match	£30	84,657	£2,539,710	62.6%
2 match	£0	922,124	£0	0.0%
Totals	1,010,128		£4,053,230	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		0.0% fall	£21,000,000	61.1% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		6.8% rise	£13,348,886	38.9% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		2.5% rise	£34,348,886

Lotto HotPicks #2206 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	2	£26,000	6.6%
Pick 3	£800	225	£180,000	46.0%
Pick 2	£60	2,716	£162,960	41.6%
Pick 1	£6	3,796	£22,776	5.8%
Totals	6,739		£391,736	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £58.13.

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	13	306	35	341	1	229	1
2nd	42	346	61	407	26	105	26
3rd	12	332	66	398	9	15	9
4th	41	320	48	368	10	86	10
5th	50	83	19	102	6	23	6
6th	45	336	79	415	12	13	12
Bonus	43	339	58	397	3	198	3
Total	246	2062	366	2428	67	669	67
Avg.	35.1	294.6	52.3	346.9	9.6	95.6	9.6

Comments:

The draw used ball set 1 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £ 4.01. One in every 10.4 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=9.62% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £83,160,799.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 22 wins totalling £370.

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 22nd February 2024 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2889 (Wednesday 30th August 2023) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2887 (Wednesday 23rd August 2023) [1 jackpot winner]

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