Most popular winning numbers picked in the last 3025 draws

Pos  No.     Wins          Sales       Percentage
 1   07   92,432,876   50,803,431,520   0.18194%
 2   09   93,656,338   52,731,155,985   0.17761%
 3   05   85,021,663   48,117,232,535   0.17670%
 4   11   92,472,467   53,711,131,425   0.17217%
 5   03   86,159,285   50,199,197,975   0.17163%
 6   44   96,150,577   56,853,911,265   0.16912%
 7   12   84,837,874   50,385,145,405   0.16838%
 8   23   93,645,760   55,660,009,545   0.16825%
 9   06   82,689,204   49,278,572,575   0.16780%
10   17   85,982,070   51,261,815,125   0.16773%
11   27   89,367,012   53,327,818,720   0.16758%
12   04   82,151,673   49,479,358,235   0.16603%
13   18   83,568,786   50,400,464,305   0.16581%
14   10   82,589,612   49,941,055,260   0.16537%
15   19   80,329,981   48,607,727,755   0.16526%
16   02   81,520,634   49,368,421,075   0.16513%
17   28   84,196,101   51,259,607,750   0.16425%
18   08   79,703,575   48,605,861,740   0.16398%
19   24   81,760,816   50,538,116,930   0.16178%
20   13   71,400,284   44,186,813,640   0.16159%
21   14   81,810,043   50,665,860,275   0.16147%
22   25   88,801,350   55,025,574,865   0.16138%
23   29   79,888,935   49,745,539,920   0.16060%
24   30   85,937,985   53,881,056,845   0.15950%
25   22   78,651,542   49,401,927,640   0.15921%
26   15   78,095,296   49,096,967,100   0.15906%
27   21   70,733,822   44,501,639,730   0.15895%
28   33   83,572,647   53,278,290,260   0.15686%
29   16   71,816,966   45,865,669,345   0.15658%
30   01   75,949,242   48,625,046,755   0.15619%
31   32   79,820,809   51,389,415,530   0.15533%
32   38   85,178,451   54,844,482,895   0.15531%
33   42   81,018,629   52,230,504,670   0.15512%
34   48   80,670,211   52,126,683,335   0.15476%
35   43   83,487,790   53,976,760,265   0.15467%
36   31   85,385,507   55,370,777,405   0.15421%
37   26   77,140,891   50,098,216,215   0.15398%
38   40   83,983,096   55,975,066,485   0.15004%
39   45   75,519,271   50,479,666,155   0.14960%
40   47   80,672,570   53,944,948,120   0.14955%
41   20   64,444,721   44,011,536,095   0.14643%
42   36   70,444,588   48,402,996,100   0.14554%
43   39   75,838,412   52,128,699,785   0.14548%
44   34   73,279,260   50,489,883,545   0.14514%
45   37   70,553,241   48,631,161,150   0.14508%
46   35   74,938,361   51,689,932,590   0.14498%
47   49   73,880,429   51,074,928,055   0.14465%
48   46   69,021,701   49,493,381,025   0.13946%
49   41   65,491,597   47,018,997,530   0.13929%
50   58    5,182,108   10,867,080,390   0.04769%
51   52    5,461,623   11,467,679,750   0.04763%
52   57    4,210,285    9,002,200,130   0.04677%
53   53    3,811,438    8,158,420,840   0.04672%
54   59    4,400,688    9,422,588,690   0.04670%
55   54    4,795,019   10,270,444,340   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    4,071,577    8,928,093,840   0.04560%
59   55    3,901,012    8,563,341,580   0.04555%

• The Wins column indicates approximately how many tickets with the specified number in the last 3025 draws has won a prize.
• Similarly, the Sales column shows how many tickets were sold with the specified number in the last 3025 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 3025 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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