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Pos No. Wins Sales Percentage 1 27 416,942 604,530,540 0.06897% 2 10 686,005 1,035,466,630 0.06625% 3 05 608,303 919,492,940 0.06616% 4 16 331,285 518,826,190 0.06385% 5 09 655,967 1,031,094,470 0.06362% 6 31 481,987 774,865,290 0.06220% 7 19 793,596 1,276,804,350 0.06215% 8 08 828,360 1,339,190,650 0.06186% 9 13 457,915 744,798,450 0.06148% 10 28 293,249 478,711,720 0.06126% 11 06 502,356 824,230,440 0.06095% 12 11 619,766 1,025,183,350 0.06045% 13 25 757,244 1,266,609,400 0.05979% 14 01 668,446 1,126,197,670 0.05935% 15 02 639,314 1,086,238,480 0.05886% 16 38 526,796 901,385,670 0.05844% 17 12 372,727 648,901,880 0.05744% 18 26 549,290 958,423,830 0.05731% 19 30 468,832 818,094,460 0.05731% 20 45 661,967 1,155,556,890 0.05729% 21 18 714,131 1,252,541,580 0.05701% 22 15 589,781 1,038,506,410 0.05679% 23 07 428,397 758,772,020 0.05646% 24 03 718,784 1,278,431,970 0.05622% 25 29 737,035 1,326,838,320 0.05555% 26 20 830,034 1,494,318,470 0.05555% 27 35 568,432 1,028,615,260 0.05526% 28 23 332,139 601,728,330 0.05520% 29 14 312,221 569,690,560 0.05481% 30 21 341,639 627,857,980 0.05441% 31 24 197,220 365,141,700 0.05401% 32 46 844,280 1,564,865,160 0.05395% 33 37 558,155 1,036,424,480 0.05385% 34 57 277,945 522,618,310 0.05318% 35 04 522,794 987,972,640 0.05292% 36 17 411,849 783,316,590 0.05258% 37 39 372,467 711,305,100 0.05236% 38 49 470,778 899,643,500 0.05233% 39 41 443,993 848,768,790 0.05231% 40 34 423,748 810,832,230 0.05226% 41 43 443,244 856,020,540 0.05178% 42 40 547,850 1,064,516,320 0.05146% 43 47 362,806 706,227,980 0.05137% 44 36 675,056 1,329,996,770 0.05076% 45 44 449,105 901,631,270 0.04981% 46 33 503,775 1,026,313,270 0.04909% 47 32 641,735 1,313,821,660 0.04884% 48 22 480,784 997,995,880 0.04817% 49 55 669,610 1,395,852,620 0.04797% 50 59 441,551 923,141,370 0.04783% 51 48 503,505 1,056,688,980 0.04765% 52 53 370,991 784,674,910 0.04728% 53 51 361,213 785,330,980 0.04600% 54 42 477,192 1,048,868,520 0.04550% 55 50 297,125 673,553,930 0.04411% 56 58 731,024 1,706,568,160 0.04284% 57 52 391,066 921,854,240 0.04242% 58 56 486,027 1,171,782,500 0.04148% 59 54 481,659 1,161,662,920 0.04146%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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