Most popular winning numbers picked in the last 3043 draws

Pos  No.     Wins          Sales       Percentage
 1   07   92,563,136   50,930,954,710   0.18174%
 2   09   93,750,674   52,841,155,985   0.17742%
 3   05   85,094,825   48,177,232,535   0.17663%
 4   11   92,498,707   53,771,131,425   0.17202%
 5   03   86,226,684   50,309,657,065   0.17139%
 6   44   96,150,577   56,853,911,265   0.16912%
 7   12   84,989,489   50,549,005,005   0.16813%
 8   23   93,696,981   55,762,898,925   0.16803%
 9   17   86,172,231   51,431,815,125   0.16755%
10   06   82,850,248   49,486,797,295   0.16742%
11   27   89,520,613   53,555,354,270   0.16716%
12   04   82,219,072   49,589,817,325   0.16580%
13   18   83,606,245   50,552,117,055   0.16539%
14   19   80,404,897   48,715,263,305   0.16505%
15   10   82,768,925   50,155,373,950   0.16503%
16   02   81,736,194   49,634,656,725   0.16468%
17   08   79,727,957   48,673,079,670   0.16380%
18   28   84,401,156   51,636,350,240   0.16345%
19   25   88,889,119   55,160,574,865   0.16115%
20   14   81,905,274   50,836,272,845   0.16112%
21   24   82,003,686   50,910,917,910   0.16107%
22   13   71,551,998   44,424,189,690   0.16107%
23   29   80,108,804   50,019,298,760   0.16016%
24   30   86,025,754   54,016,056,845   0.15926%
25   22   78,726,459   49,509,463,190   0.15901%
26   21   70,733,822   44,501,639,730   0.15895%
27   15   78,189,633   49,206,967,100   0.15890%
28   33   83,623,269   53,405,508,190   0.15658%
29   01   76,037,011   48,760,046,755   0.15594%
30   16   72,003,292   46,183,663,985   0.15591%
31   42   81,056,088   52,313,639,650   0.15494%
32   48   80,670,211   52,126,683,335   0.15476%
33   43   83,521,251   53,976,760,265   0.15474%
34   38   85,337,382   55,158,030,445   0.15471%
35   32   80,023,744   51,729,680,960   0.15470%
36   31   85,510,012   55,521,435,575   0.15401%
37   26   77,166,788   50,158,216,215   0.15385%
38   40   84,127,967   56,185,525,575   0.14973%
39   45   75,568,402   50,584,031,275   0.14939%
40   47   80,855,739   54,219,313,240   0.14913%
41   20   64,537,210   44,200,053,865   0.14601%
42   36   70,493,718   48,507,361,220   0.14533%
43   39   76,022,864   52,367,116,795   0.14517%
44   37   70,586,703   48,631,161,150   0.14515%
45   49   73,880,429   51,074,928,055   0.14465%
46   34   73,399,790   50,777,101,475   0.14455%
47   35   75,232,842   52,125,603,120   0.14433%
48   46   69,117,524   49,553,381,025   0.13948%
49   41   65,517,494   47,078,997,530   0.13917%
50   52    5,553,788   11,640,562,640   0.04771%
51   58    5,182,108   10,935,598,160   0.04739%
52   57    4,319,263    9,122,200,130   0.04735%
53   54    5,021,005   10,726,927,790   0.04681%
54   53    3,855,448    8,258,420,840   0.04669%
55   59    4,425,070    9,489,806,620   0.04663%
56   50    4,289,852    9,221,545,150   0.04652%
57   56    4,486,232    9,715,897,020   0.04617%
58   51    4,191,811    9,098,093,840   0.04607%
59   55    3,927,253    8,623,341,580   0.04554%

• The Wins column indicates approximately how many tickets with the specified number in the last 3043 draws has won a prize.
• Similarly, the Sales column shows how many tickets were sold with the specified number in the last 3043 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 3043 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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