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Pos No. Wins Sales Percentage 1 05 908,386 1,184,434,910 0.07669% 2 09 613,663 816,045,480 0.07520% 3 37 432,738 583,877,400 0.07411% 4 12 699,380 963,551,980 0.07258% 5 08 815,624 1,130,620,940 0.07214% 6 04 573,614 823,534,670 0.06965% 7 10 358,162 538,661,730 0.06649% 8 47 536,429 820,196,320 0.06540% 9 20 469,571 718,766,210 0.06533% 10 11 664,710 1,027,165,660 0.06471% 11 42 803,404 1,242,190,750 0.06468% 12 33 445,895 692,440,730 0.06439% 13 25 826,321 1,298,319,060 0.06365% 14 15 611,788 966,215,840 0.06332% 15 07 548,427 871,668,890 0.06292% 16 17 884,808 1,411,638,890 0.06268% 17 36 464,583 744,188,040 0.06243% 18 13 499,409 805,410,100 0.06201% 19 24 294,934 479,986,730 0.06145% 20 23 521,364 850,379,880 0.06131% 21 01 597,708 975,555,830 0.06127% 22 32 576,464 941,373,080 0.06124% 23 26 864,537 1,412,981,760 0.06119% 24 16 428,832 705,866,620 0.06075% 25 03 543,978 895,741,710 0.06073% 26 27 538,456 888,034,250 0.06063% 27 43 668,706 1,116,594,510 0.05989% 28 31 940,665 1,584,900,400 0.05935% 29 38 517,940 875,610,210 0.05915% 30 28 243,234 417,519,380 0.05826% 31 06 581,085 998,532,330 0.05819% 32 39 454,612 803,685,520 0.05657% 33 18 549,674 975,630,040 0.05634% 34 02 139,826 248,823,920 0.05619% 35 34 582,947 1,039,355,350 0.05609% 36 19 538,906 962,511,000 0.05599% 37 54 643,053 1,172,943,710 0.05482% 38 45 810,301 1,478,910,510 0.05479% 39 49 397,760 727,440,340 0.05468% 40 22 758,813 1,395,613,720 0.05437% 41 55 638,048 1,182,062,830 0.05398% 42 40 754,695 1,401,905,750 0.05383% 43 44 272,355 507,816,130 0.05363% 44 35 594,586 1,131,527,120 0.05255% 45 46 680,131 1,301,481,770 0.05226% 46 14 161,830 310,659,230 0.05209% 47 21 90,575 176,032,330 0.05145% 48 53 440,042 878,453,890 0.05009% 49 30 261,933 523,767,670 0.05001% 50 56 422,122 850,718,930 0.04962% 51 52 537,438 1,109,096,710 0.04846% 52 48 443,881 918,201,860 0.04834% 53 41 446,966 941,402,860 0.04748% 54 29 315,669 665,992,300 0.04740% 55 51 496,584 1,076,736,640 0.04612% 56 57 139,152 315,363,830 0.04412% 57 59 342,566 779,819,580 0.04393% 58 50 229,977 554,195,410 0.04150% 59 58 342,054 832,490,460 0.04109%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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