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Pos No. Wins Sales Percentage 1 21 350,036 468,521,850 0.07471% 2 09 617,783 865,720,170 0.07136% 3 05 771,687 1,139,260,980 0.06774% 4 17 617,602 931,215,830 0.06632% 5 23 1,038,801 1,648,673,090 0.06301% 6 04 425,855 682,019,050 0.06244% 7 19 522,651 841,320,290 0.06212% 8 07 859,062 1,402,297,440 0.06126% 9 08 891,524 1,455,430,240 0.06126% 10 37 413,309 684,012,870 0.06042% 11 29 661,825 1,099,657,960 0.06018% 12 03 296,195 496,112,670 0.05970% 13 28 519,680 871,539,430 0.05963% 14 10 582,961 992,067,470 0.05876% 15 06 297,750 507,723,240 0.05864% 16 12 349,080 596,200,310 0.05855% 17 32 757,525 1,305,599,480 0.05802% 18 02 511,976 883,799,710 0.05793% 19 27 815,333 1,409,842,510 0.05783% 20 11 610,653 1,056,360,870 0.05781% 21 31 357,705 626,132,730 0.05713% 22 24 319,988 562,752,300 0.05686% 23 18 423,488 745,333,440 0.05682% 24 33 509,756 900,628,050 0.05660% 25 38 365,172 645,938,250 0.05653% 26 36 790,162 1,408,741,730 0.05609% 27 22 497,180 889,899,690 0.05587% 28 48 198,693 359,000,000 0.05535% 29 43 550,891 1,000,310,320 0.05507% 30 13 565,480 1,028,140,200 0.05500% 31 14 613,672 1,119,366,090 0.05482% 32 44 681,319 1,259,688,290 0.05409% 33 26 631,147 1,175,416,190 0.05370% 34 45 590,697 1,101,540,210 0.05362% 35 47 691,656 1,292,335,280 0.05352% 36 25 515,878 975,630,950 0.05288% 37 42 769,031 1,454,552,040 0.05287% 38 15 248,833 472,289,120 0.05269% 39 49 366,190 696,892,960 0.05255% 40 54 577,057 1,104,915,730 0.05223% 41 01 224,029 438,272,120 0.05112% 42 30 543,780 1,068,421,510 0.05090% 43 35 658,022 1,298,799,080 0.05066% 44 40 598,003 1,186,020,990 0.05042% 45 16 564,361 1,133,032,850 0.04981% 46 41 536,194 1,077,410,520 0.04977% 47 58 677,004 1,366,117,250 0.04956% 48 34 622,035 1,264,034,790 0.04921% 49 52 616,601 1,255,854,240 0.04910% 50 20 311,418 652,892,850 0.04770% 51 53 318,142 671,683,600 0.04736% 52 46 340,444 720,483,770 0.04725% 53 57 453,556 996,798,590 0.04550% 54 39 489,838 1,081,496,590 0.04529% 55 55 641,122 1,416,171,920 0.04527% 56 50 305,245 695,860,010 0.04387% 57 56 382,634 882,471,360 0.04336% 58 51 331,721 769,477,990 0.04311% 59 59 251,505 595,101,740 0.04226%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 104 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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