The luckiest number in Mega Millions is 31, which occurred in 217 drawings, and in Powerball, it’s 39, which showed up in 334 drawings. In Powerball, 60 is the unluckiest number; in Mega Millions, it’s 72.
The study used data from the American lotto database, which draws from a trove of state lotteries across the country, using the frequency of numbers in winning combinations to rank them.
A Powerball ticket bought in Oregon fetched an astounding $1.3 billion just this week, the fourth-largest jackpot in Powerball history. The current jackpot is 31 million. Experts recommend avoiding numbers 7, 44, and 1, as they’ve respectively only been drawn 299, 301, and 302 times.
These are the luckiest numbers in Mega Millions
The Mega Millions lottery game has an all-time record of $1.602 billion. Based on frequency, these are the Mega Millions luckiest numbers :
Rank Numbers Mega Millions Frequency
1 — 31, 217
2 — 10, 215
3 — 20, 213
4 — 14, 210
4 — 17, 210
5 — 46, 207
$97 million is the current jackpot for Mega Millions. Other unlucky numbers for the Mega Millions include 67, 65, and 60, according to experts.
in Mega Millions is 31, which occurred in 217 drawings, and in Powerball, it's 39, which showed up in 334 drawings. In Powerball, 60 is the unluckiest number; in Mega Millions, it's 72.
The five most frequent numbers are 17, 31, 10, 46, and 20 — all five have been drawn at least once since the last Mega Millions jackpot was won in December. As for the Mega Ball, only six numbers have been drawn more than 100 times: 1, 3, 9, 10, 15, and 7.
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.
To play, pick six numbers from two separate pools of numbers: either five different numbers from 1-70 for the white numbers, and one number from 1-25 for the gold Mega Ball. You win the Mega Millions jackpot by matching your numbers to all six numbers pulled in the drawing.
Once again, this winning ticket was a result of a Quick Pick. The lucky winner chose to take the cash option of $340 million before taxes and said she planned to pay off debt and buy a new home with her newfound fortune.
There is no such thing as a winning formula because lotteries are games of chance. There is no strategies which can give a player a better than average chance of beating the odds.
“The only way to really increase the odds of winning any lottery is to buy more tickets. The more tickets you buy, the more chances you have to win,” Kapoor said.
Now specifically for the POWERBALL itself, what numbers seem to be the luckiest? According to Jackpocket lottery blog, with data since October 2015, the five most popular numbers are 61, 32, 21, 63, and 36. The most popular Powerball number is 18 since 2015..
According to CSGO Luck's data, since 2015, the number 61 has been drawn 90 times in Powerball, making it the luckiest number. Following 61, 32 have been drawn 89 times, and 63 have been drawn 88 times. Based on the available data, the top 10 numbers drawn, in order, are: 61.
Not at all! In a lotto game like Mega Millions, the order in which the numbers are drawn does not matter. The numbers on your ticket are always shown in numerical order, as are the winning numbers for each drawing as reported here on megamillions.com.
Each time you generate numbers, a new set of numbers is chosen at random. No system of choosing randomly generated picks is better than any other system. Players are encouraged to use whatever system works for them, including their own picks.
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