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If you plan to play the drawing, do you have numbers in mind? A new study reveals the lottery numbers you should play to win big: The number 28 is drawn most often across all lotteries, with an average frequency of 201.4. The numbers 16 and 39 are second and third, with average frequencies of 200.6 and 199, ...
What are the 6 most common winning lottery numbers? ›
The most frequently drawn winning numbers from the main barrel are 17, 7, 11, 2, 3 and 9, while the least frequently drawn are 33, 15, 34, 31, 26 and 1. The most frequently drawn Powerball numbers are 19 and 2, while the least frequently drawn Powerball numbers are 14 and 16.
What are the 6 luckiest numbers for Mega Millions? ›
As for the Mega Ball, only six numbers have been drawn more than 100 times: 1, 3, 9, 10, 15, and 7.
Which number wins the lottery most often? ›
Most common main numbers
- 10: Drawn 63 times.
- 3: Drawn 62 times.
- 17: Drawn 60 times.
- 46: Drawn 59 times.
- 14: Drawn 59 times.
- 31: Drawn 58 times.
- 64: Drawn 58 times.
- 8: Drawn 57 times.
What are the luckiest Powerball numbers?
- 23 - Drawn 85 times.
- 39 - Drawn 85 times.
- 33 - Drawn 84 times.
- 62 - Drawn 71 times.
- 69 - Drawn 84 times.
- 64 - Drawn 84 times.
- 37 - Drawn 83 times.
- 28 - Drawn 83 times.
Ahead of the draw the National Lottery has shared the top six most drawn Lotto balls since 1994, which are: 23, 38, 31, 25, 33 and 11. The National Lottery also revealed how many times each of the balls had been drawn as both a main ball and a bonus ball.
What are hot numbers in the lottery? ›
Hot numbers are the numbers that are drawn most often in any given lottery in any given time frame.
What numbers hit most often in Mega Millions? ›
For the Mega Ball, there are four numbers that have been drawn three times: 1, 11, 24, and 7.
What are the hot numbers to pick for Mega Millions? ›
Most common Mega Millions numbers
- 22: Drawn 34 times.
- 11: Drawn 31 times.
- 9: Drawn 30 times.
- 18: Drawn 28 times.
- 25: Drawn 28 times.
- 19: Drawn 28 times.
- 4: Drawn 28 times.
- 13: Drawn 28 times.
In particular, pick random numbers. If you pick your favorite number or the day of your birthday like the 7th, which is the day of the next drawing, many people can be doing the same and that puts a lot of numbers between 1 and 31. Picking your own numbers doesn't change the odds of winning.
Since then, these are the most commonly drawn Powerball numbers:
- 24 (drawn 45 times)
- 18 (drawn 42 times)
- 4 (drawn 36 times)
- 10 (drawn 36 times)
- 21 (drawn 36 times)
Most people can only dream of winning the lottery, so it is crazy to hear of lucky folks who have hit jackpots not just once, but multiple times. Well Stefan Mandel is one of those people, winning a whopping 14 times, but for him, luck didn't have much to do with it.
What is the formula for picking numbers in the lottery? ›
There is no mathematical formula or method that can accurately predict the winning numbers in a lottery. Lotteries are typically designed to be random and based on chance, making it impossible to predict the outcome with certainty. Each number in a lottery draw is usually drawn independently and randomly.
Which Lotto numbers come up the most? ›
Looking at the 3 examples mentioned above, and omitting the Lucky Stars as they are just 1-12 we have identified that:
- The number 5 has been pulled 26 times. This is more than any other number.
- The number 8 has been pulled 25 times.
- The numbers 6, 10 and 26 have been pulled 24 times.
Of the past 4,160 plays, the number 45 ranks number one being drawn 566 times. Next comes the numbers 31, 34, 38, 40 and 43. The number 5 is the most commonly drawn for the Bonus ball number. Top numbers selected for Lotto Max of the past 979 draws include 19, 39, 28, 7, 2, 24 and 30.
