Most popular winning numbers picked in the last 2424 draws

Most popular ticket in the last 2424 draws: 03 05 07 09 11 27 (51 wins to date totalling £714)
Least popular ticket in the last 2424 draws: 51 54 55 56 57 59 (5 wins to date totalling £125)

Pos  No.     Wins          Sales       Percentage
 1   07   88,445,417   44,796,531,400   0.19744%
 2   09   90,142,811   47,001,983,265   0.19179%
 3   05   82,036,681   43,293,656,055   0.18949%
 4   03   82,476,329   44,322,271,425   0.18608%
 5   11   88,769,497   47,847,960,805   0.18552%
 6   27   85,546,380   46,764,501,690   0.18293%
 7   44   92,735,921   50,824,787,165   0.18246%
 8   12   81,607,958   44,857,126,225   0.18193%
 9   13   67,568,834   37,333,731,300   0.18099%
10   23   89,967,462   49,822,920,835   0.18057%
11   06   79,652,408   44,286,279,635   0.17986%
12   17   82,598,376   45,942,068,355   0.17979%
13   19   77,002,826   43,115,722,005   0.17860%
14   04   78,843,042   44,178,655,535   0.17846%
15   10   79,329,635   44,622,186,330   0.17778%
16   28   80,726,716   45,428,811,840   0.17770%
17   18   80,824,305   45,536,631,705   0.17749%
18   08   76,094,379   42,913,798,530   0.17732%
19   02   78,769,823   44,658,785,885   0.17638%
20   24   78,254,635   44,729,820,490   0.17495%
21   14   78,301,103   44,795,566,545   0.17480%
22   29   76,413,396   44,154,018,810   0.17306%
23   22   75,579,380   43,872,117,760   0.17227%
24   15   75,085,876   43,647,083,000   0.17203%
25   21   67,480,206   39,252,979,550   0.17191%
26   25   85,999,658   50,037,268,135   0.17187%
27   33   79,811,569   46,496,542,470   0.17165%
28   16   68,675,582   40,245,954,545   0.17064%
29   30   83,321,781   49,287,500,405   0.16905%
30   32   76,806,483   45,734,294,840   0.16794%
31   42   77,759,987   46,330,140,440   0.16784%
32   01   73,013,528   43,823,187,505   0.16661%
33   38   82,365,062   49,562,314,635   0.16618%
34   48   78,013,017   47,210,064,115   0.16525%
35   43   80,906,020   49,015,162,925   0.16506%
36   26   74,200,797   44,977,296,825   0.16497%
37   31   82,253,078   49,962,999,565   0.16463%
38   45   72,464,852   44,791,423,955   0.16178%
39   39   71,949,265   44,788,237,585   0.16064%
40   47   77,583,288   48,337,432,650   0.16050%
41   20   61,138,704   38,159,406,125   0.16022%
42   37   66,852,349   41,754,475,570   0.16011%
43   36   67,163,210   42,225,295,860   0.15906%
44   40   81,545,332   51,466,499,485   0.15844%
45   34   70,086,991   44,326,665,745   0.15811%
46   49   70,886,527   45,273,397,105   0.15657%
47   35   72,010,803   46,262,224,780   0.15566%
48   41   62,521,418   41,324,675,470   0.15129%
49   46   66,299,777   44,280,059,475   0.14973%
50   53    1,439,555    3,147,622,120   0.04573%
51   50    1,319,872    2,901,147,520   0.04549%
52   58    2,263,086    4,981,790,620   0.04543%
53   52    2,172,630    4,792,029,320   0.04534%
54   57    1,367,658    3,033,142,720   0.04509%
55   55    1,922,093    4,293,701,240   0.04477%
56   51    1,722,900    3,865,696,970   0.04457%
57   54    2,302,534    5,167,570,870   0.04456%
58   56    1,810,308    4,076,982,210   0.04440%
59   59    1,712,290    3,996,499,740   0.04284%

Notes:

The Wins column indicates approximately how many tickets with the specified number in the last 2424 draws has won a prize.
Similarly, the Sales column shows how many tickets were sold with the specified number in the last 2424 draws.
The Percentage column is simply 100*Wins/Sales and the rows are sorted on that column.

How the figures are calculated

This is where I risk boring the pants off all of you with some fancy maths which is actually all smoke and mirrors since no-one except Camelot really knows the exact figures.

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 2424 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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