Pos No. Wins Sales Percentage 1 07 89,728,498 46,751,504,220 0.19193% 2 09 91,363,347 48,869,338,025 0.18695% 3 05 83,073,387 44,853,224,805 0.18521% 4 03 83,342,453 45,731,740,435 0.18224% 5 11 89,854,309 49,626,512,485 0.18106% 6 12 82,290,116 45,938,664,735 0.17913% 7 44 93,808,682 52,843,716,265 0.17752% 8 27 87,030,099 49,188,600,280 0.17693% 9 06 80,372,086 45,584,642,055 0.17631% 10 17 83,546,391 47,394,097,315 0.17628% 11 23 91,460,454 52,218,857,005 0.17515% 12 04 79,838,997 45,681,836,425 0.17477% 13 13 68,627,980 39,307,709,100 0.17459% 14 19 77,998,987 44,796,712,155 0.17412% 15 18 81,785,401 47,263,332,405 0.17304% 16 10 80,539,232 46,623,131,840 0.17275% 17 28 82,044,065 47,530,861,390 0.17261% 18 02 79,713,154 46,268,262,475 0.17228% 19 24 79,043,599 46,067,493,840 0.17158% 20 08 77,522,026 45,246,090,320 0.17133% 21 14 79,458,328 46,661,988,665 0.17028% 22 15 75,542,496 44,508,682,180 0.16973% 23 29 77,285,520 45,590,599,860 0.16952% 24 22 76,360,853 45,242,533,580 0.16878% 25 25 86,862,187 51,621,067,525 0.16827% 26 21 68,566,142 40,868,571,020 0.16777% 27 33 81,026,199 48,583,601,060 0.16678% 28 16 69,655,161 42,040,900,055 0.16568% 29 30 84,210,329 50,950,504,095 0.16528% 30 01 73,815,113 45,243,679,395 0.16315% 31 42 78,898,765 48,428,849,170 0.16292% 32 48 78,584,464 48,289,370,715 0.16274% 33 32 78,046,059 48,035,777,410 0.16247% 34 31 82,918,419 51,148,274,125 0.16211% 35 38 83,438,134 51,511,608,445 0.16198% 36 43 81,709,486 50,519,283,205 0.16174% 37 26 75,227,097 46,955,804,995 0.16021% 38 45 73,617,848 46,976,631,775 0.15671% 39 20 61,839,056 39,558,379,355 0.15632% 40 37 67,859,537 43,554,229,770 0.15580% 41 39 72,930,628 46,859,756,595 0.15564% 42 47 78,881,579 50,702,418,850 0.15558% 43 40 82,418,806 53,136,830,285 0.15511% 44 36 68,385,610 44,447,462,670 0.15386% 45 34 71,037,278 46,179,051,555 0.15383% 46 49 71,807,216 47,184,279,965 0.15218% 47 35 73,298,029 48,692,961,040 0.15053% 48 41 63,214,583 42,736,592,630 0.14792% 49 46 66,925,628 45,630,830,685 0.14667% 50 52 3,449,390 7,485,898,220 0.04608% 51 58 3,141,251 6,838,712,930 0.04593% 52 54 3,233,081 7,063,034,200 0.04577% 53 53 2,144,397 4,700,522,790 0.04562% 54 50 2,173,438 4,774,142,300 0.04553% 55 57 2,319,741 5,096,274,090 0.04552% 56 51 2,542,650 5,664,362,060 0.04489% 57 55 2,922,646 6,524,844,100 0.04479% 58 56 2,556,869 5,811,093,100 0.04400% 59 59 2,355,725 5,414,071,040 0.04351%Notes:
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 2617 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...