Most popular winning numbers picked in the last 2584 draws

Pos  No.     Wins          Sales       Percentage
 1   07   89,598,785   46,612,802,840   0.19222%
 2   09   91,027,115   48,346,139,815   0.18828%
 3   05   83,010,976   44,783,791,605   0.18536%
 4   03   83,162,411   45,437,307,235   0.18303%
 5   11   89,662,310   49,291,318,045   0.18190%
 6   12   82,100,819   45,665,472,905   0.17979%
 7   44   93,619,334   52,486,085,675   0.17837%
 8   27   86,631,765   48,627,650,740   0.17815%
 9   06   80,227,031   45,286,697,415   0.17715%
10   17   83,495,086   47,320,018,455   0.17645%
11   13   68,354,748   38,811,645,510   0.17612%
12   23   91,312,794   51,978,229,225   0.17568%
13   04   79,647,682   45,471,176,715   0.17516%
14   19   77,953,119   44,686,642,085   0.17444%
15   18   81,530,021   46,800,147,675   0.17421%
16   28   81,651,375   46,981,094,790   0.17380%
17   10   80,287,880   46,268,295,530   0.17353%
18   02   79,650,251   46,127,995,515   0.17267%
19   08   77,302,662   44,919,879,440   0.17209%
20   24   78,906,819   45,889,592,810   0.17195%
21   14   79,285,187   46,485,882,945   0.17056%
22   15   75,489,734   44,403,682,180   0.17001%
23   29   77,225,549   45,524,226,930   0.16964%
24   22   76,324,363   45,179,033,580   0.16894%
25   25   86,729,745   51,365,405,065   0.16885%
26   21   68,254,803   40,452,479,900   0.16873%
27   33   80,847,215   48,316,804,480   0.16733%
28   16   69,498,966   41,796,131,155   0.16628%
29   30   84,029,115   50,684,475,695   0.16579%
30   01   73,609,933   44,958,588,325   0.16373%
31   38   83,051,005   50,763,457,835   0.16360%
32   32   77,907,010   47,713,919,040   0.16328%
33   42   78,785,642   48,290,349,170   0.16315%
34   48   78,479,554   48,109,370,715   0.16313%
35   31   82,876,211   51,074,672,895   0.16226%
36   43   81,636,310   50,350,783,205   0.16214%
37   26   75,073,257   46,613,348,865   0.16106%
38   45   73,376,185   46,499,908,745   0.15780%
39   20   61,736,569   39,382,148,765   0.15676%
40   37   67,693,901   43,186,076,200   0.15675%
41   39   72,750,530   46,465,851,595   0.15657%
42   47   78,633,446   50,243,876,000   0.15650%
43   40   82,418,806   53,136,830,285   0.15511%
44   36   68,183,819   44,016,845,250   0.15490%
45   34   70,950,675   45,983,782,655   0.15429%
46   49   71,490,040   46,493,129,705   0.15376%
47   35   73,074,590   48,325,182,140   0.15121%
48   41   63,109,767   42,485,136,500   0.14855%
49   46   66,718,302   45,169,681,145   0.14771%
50   52    3,196,708    6,931,675,440   0.04612%
51   58    3,115,108    6,768,995,260   0.04602%
52   53    2,005,271    4,380,452,720   0.04578%
53   54    3,070,508    6,726,683,330   0.04565%
54   50    1,948,493    4,307,081,220   0.04524%
55   51    2,378,705    5,299,856,950   0.04488%
56   55    2,807,555    6,264,815,700   0.04481%
57   57    2,033,010    4,542,918,990   0.04475%
58   56    2,330,637    5,297,471,450   0.04400%
59   59    2,191,324    5,051,651,530   0.04338%

• The Wins column indicates approximately how many tickets with the specified number in the last 2584 draws has won a prize.
• Similarly, the Sales column shows how many tickets were sold with the specified number in the last 2584 draws.
• The Percentage column is simply 100*Wins/Sales and the rows are sorted on that column.

How the figures are calculated

Firstly, I needed to work out how many winning tickets used a particular number (let's say using the number 1 as an example) in each prize tier for a single draw. Camelot don't release the figures for this, so for a particular prize tier, it has to be estimated thus:

Winning tickets using the number 1 in a prize tier = ( Number of combinations in that tier that use the number 1 / Total combinations in that tier ) * Number of actual prize winners in that tier [yes, this last figure is indeed released by Camelot]

This assumes an even distribution of combinations of course, which isn't the case in real life, but it's the best we can do. I then wrote a combinations program that generated all 14m tickets and calculated the first two figures in the RHS of the above equation for each tier (we know the third figure from Camelot as I said) by assuming that the 6 numbers drawn were 1 to 6 and we were looking at winning tickets using the number 1. This resulted in the following table:

Tier       Uses 1     Combs     Ratio
6-match         1           1   1.000
5+bonus         5           6   0.833
5-match       210         252   0.833
4-match     9,030      13,545   0.667
3-match   123,410     246,820   0.500
2-match   617,050   1,851,150   0.333
1-match   962,598   5,775,588   0.167
0-match         0   6,095,454   0.000

After this, it was simply a question of using the above table for each draw, multiplying the ratio by number of winners in the tier for a particular draw and then doing this for all 2584 draws to get a total for a particular number. I then totalled the sales for every draw where a particular number appeared, divided the figure from the previous sentence by that total and then sorted on the percentage figure as shown in the main table on this page. You can wake up now...

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