UK National Lotto #2898

Winning numbers drawn at 7.45pm BST on Saturday 30th September 2023:

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

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Jackpot	£3,800,000	1	£3,800,000	33.1%
5+bonus	£1,000,000	2	£2,000,000	17.4%
5 match	£1,750	136	£238,000	2.1%
4 match	£140	7,553	£1,057,420	9.2%
3 match	£30	146,318	£4,389,540	38.2%
2 match	£0	1,157,449	£0	0.0%
Totals	1,311,459		£11,484,960	100.0%
Category		Change	Figure	Percentages
Ticket sales (Sat)		2.7% rise	£21,000,000	62.4% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (Wed)		1.1% rise	£12,632,502	37.6% of Sat+Wed sales
Ticket sales (S+W)		2.1% rise	£33,632,502

Lotto HotPicks #2216 results:

Category	Prize	Winners	Total	Percentages
Pick 5	£350,000	0	£0	0.0%
Pick 4	£13,000	15	£195,000	15.9%
Pick 3	£800	873	£698,400	56.8%
Pick 2	£60	5,099	£305,940	24.9%
Pick 1	£6	4,882	£29,292	2.4%
Totals	10,869		£1,228,632	100.0%

The average Lotto HotPicks prize was £113.04.

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	40	361	46	407	27	21	21
2nd	14	331	68	399	14	24	14
3rd	08	332	69	401	1	12	1
4th	24	340	51	391	4	74	4
5th	01	312	57	369	26	130	26
6th	20	307	69	376	1	27	1
Bonus	52	106	13	119	3	137	3
Total	159	2089	373	2462	76	425	70
Avg.	22.7	298.4	53.3	351.7	10.9	60.7	10.0

Comments:

The draw used ball set 2 in the Merlin machine and the average main Lotto prize was £ 8.76. One in every 8.0 main Lotto tickets won a prize (=12.49% of players).

If all 45,057,474 ticket combinations were additionally purchased for the main Lotto game, they would have made a loss of £84,078,404.

The prior history of the main Lotto jackpot ticket included 57 wins totalling £1,021.

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 28th March 2024 and have been added to the National Lottery Distribution Fund.

Next Lotto: #2899 (Wednesday 4th October 2023) [No jackpot winners]
Previous Lotto: #2897 (Wednesday 27th September 2023) [1 jackpot winner]

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