Most popular winning numbers picked in the last 3038 draws

Most popular ticket in the last 3038 draws: 03 05 07 09 11 44 (56 wins to date totalling £1,331)
Least popular ticket in the last 3038 draws: 50 51 53 55 56 59 (9 wins to date totalling £255)

Pos  No.     Wins          Sales       Percentage
 1   07   92,529,675   50,930,954,710   0.18168%
 2   09   93,750,674   52,841,155,985   0.17742%
 3   05   85,061,364   48,177,232,535   0.17656%
 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   06   82,801,118   49,382,432,175   0.16767%
10   17   86,129,195   51,431,815,125   0.16746%
11   27   89,494,716   53,495,354,270   0.16729%
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   79,703,575   48,605,861,740   0.16398%
18   28   84,352,025   51,531,985,120   0.16369%
19   13   71,551,998   44,289,189,690   0.16156%
20   25   88,889,119   55,025,574,865   0.16154%
21   14   81,905,274   50,836,272,845   0.16112%
22   24   82,003,686   50,910,917,910   0.16107%
23   29   80,108,804   50,019,298,760   0.16016%
24   30   86,025,754   53,881,056,845   0.15966%
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   83,598,887   53,338,290,260   0.15673%
29   01   76,037,011   48,625,046,755   0.15637%
30   16   72,003,292   46,183,663,985   0.15591%
31   32   80,023,744   51,594,680,960   0.15510%
32   42   81,056,088   52,313,639,650   0.15494%
33   48   80,670,211   52,126,683,335   0.15476%
34   38   85,337,382   55,158,030,445   0.15471%
35   43   83,487,790   53,976,760,265   0.15467%
36   26   77,140,891   50,098,216,215   0.15398%
37   31   85,466,976   55,521,435,575   0.15394%
38   40   84,094,505   56,185,525,575   0.14967%
39   45   75,519,271   50,479,666,155   0.14960%
40   47   80,806,608   54,114,948,120   0.14932%
41   20   64,537,210   44,200,053,865   0.14601%
42   36   70,444,588   48,402,996,100   0.14554%
43   37   70,553,241   48,631,161,150   0.14508%
44   39   75,946,367   52,367,116,795   0.14503%
45   34   73,349,511   50,649,883,545   0.14482%
46   35   75,232,842   51,990,603,120   0.14470%
47   49   73,880,429   51,074,928,055   0.14465%
48   46   69,074,488   49,553,381,025   0.13939%
49   41   65,491,597   47,018,997,530   0.13929%
50   58    5,182,108   10,935,598,160   0.04739%
51   52    5,461,623   11,536,197,520   0.04734%
52   57    4,276,227    9,122,200,130   0.04688%
53   54    4,995,108   10,666,927,790   0.04683%
54   59    4,400,688    9,422,588,690   0.04670%
55   53    3,855,448    8,258,420,840   0.04669%
56   50    4,265,470    9,154,327,220   0.04660%
57   56    4,461,850    9,648,679,090   0.04624%
58   51    4,165,914    9,038,093,840   0.04609%
59   55    3,927,253    8,623,341,580   0.04554%

Notes:

The Wins column indicates approximately how many tickets with the specified number in the last 3038 draws has won a prize.
Similarly, the Sales column shows how many tickets were sold with the specified number in the last 3038 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 3038 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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