Most popular winning numbers picked in the last 2354 draws

Pos  No.     Wins          Sales       Percentage
 1   07   88,182,433   44,346,083,400   0.19885%
 2   09   89,635,691   46,257,920,165   0.19377%
 3   05   81,315,319   42,303,087,135   0.19222%
 4   03   82,012,130   43,539,552,545   0.18836%
 5   11   88,311,531   47,072,423,155   0.18761%
 6   27   85,120,120   46,052,990,270   0.18483%
 7   12   81,000,201   43,957,074,245   0.18427%
 8   44   92,506,288   50,389,871,185   0.18358%
 9   13   67,296,959   36,874,553,020   0.18250%
10   17   81,989,451   45,008,749,885   0.18216%
11   23   89,626,133   49,225,109,595   0.18207%
12   06   79,196,095   43,500,131,025   0.18206%
13   19   76,568,726   42,394,304,115   0.18061%
14   04   78,427,014   43,631,323,955   0.17975%
15   18   80,389,744   44,804,685,385   0.17942%
16   08   75,714,989   42,390,885,780   0.17861%
17   10   79,171,060   44,369,700,080   0.17843%
18   28   80,574,764   45,180,893,750   0.17834%
19   02   78,652,800   44,473,461,965   0.17685%
20   24   78,032,404   44,356,915,530   0.17592%
21   14   78,191,983   44,597,506,145   0.17533%
22   22   75,161,224   42,994,048,380   0.17482%
23   29   76,208,338   43,730,566,560   0.17427%
24   25   85,348,624   48,988,271,775   0.17422%
25   15   74,706,004   42,975,293,810   0.17383%
26   33   79,532,052   45,994,791,150   0.17292%
27   21   67,389,630   39,076,947,220   0.17245%
28   16   68,355,893   39,726,832,005   0.17206%
29   42   77,119,763   45,216,936,460   0.17056%
30   32   76,347,646   44,897,036,280   0.17005%
31   30   83,100,234   48,872,001,935   0.17004%
32   01   72,561,373   43,087,442,345   0.16840%
33   38   81,919,826   48,793,786,195   0.16789%
34   31   81,541,340   48,745,769,025   0.16728%
35   48   77,643,840   46,461,222,635   0.16712%
36   26   73,771,578   44,169,178,425   0.16702%
37   43   80,480,653   48,230,869,635   0.16687%
38   45   71,862,448   43,771,303,445   0.16418%
39   47   77,231,341   47,632,830,040   0.16214%
40   39   71,672,125   44,244,125,205   0.16199%
41   20   60,731,371   37,504,139,915   0.16193%
42   40   80,937,030   50,186,343,535   0.16127%
43   37   66,607,412   41,341,179,940   0.16112%
44   36   66,925,280   41,729,991,430   0.16038%
45   34   69,666,325   43,521,449,415   0.16007%
46   49   70,629,728   44,826,170,115   0.15756%
47   35   71,810,801   45,839,300,980   0.15666%
48   41   62,228,295   40,697,324,770   0.15291%
49   46   65,790,090   43,215,146,045   0.15224%
50   50    1,235,243    2,656,544,650   0.04650%
51   53    1,137,884    2,456,885,190   0.04631%
52   58    1,992,368    4,340,507,720   0.04590%
53   52    1,890,434    4,156,909,550   0.04548%
54   57    1,287,132    2,845,338,430   0.04524%
55   54    2,027,700    4,511,073,840   0.04495%
56   51    1,292,313    2,927,626,770   0.04414%
57   56    1,470,384    3,354,757,560   0.04383%
58   55    1,554,582    3,564,071,650   0.04362%
59   59    1,410,111    3,324,949,360   0.04241%

• The Wins column indicates approximately how many tickets with the specified number in the last 2354 draws has won a prize.
• Similarly, the Sales column shows how many tickets were sold with the specified number in the last 2354 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 2354 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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