Luckiest and unluckiest lottery numbers revealed and this combination guarantees a win
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A study of 30 years of lottery balls revealed the luckiest and unluckiest numbers you can choose for the National Lottery draw. In the three decades and 3,000 draws since the Lotto began, there is no ball that has been pulled fewer times than the unlucky number 13 (358). Whereas, the number 38, would appear to be the luckiest number, having been pulled on 451 occasions.
According to the study, the best numbers you could pull together with a chance of winning the pot are 38, 23, 31, 11, 45 and 33. However, the margin between those lucky balls and the rest of the pot is minute. This means it's incredibly unlikely that you could win big by relying on those numbers, reports the MailOnline.
However, several well-respected mathematicians feel they may have cracked the 27-ticket combination to guarantee you a prize, but you may find you spend way more than you get back. By using the combination on the draws since May 18 this year, you would've finished the year with a total winnings of £480 after laying out a whopping £2,790 on the amount of £2 tickets needed.
September was the month with the most potential when half of the winnings - £240 - would have been scooped. The "hack" was created by David Cushing and David Stewart, statisticians from the University of Manchester. The theory works on placing each number between one and 59 in pairs of triplets in a certain order.
The study used data from the Mersey World Lottery, which is an online lottery statistics collection project run by enthusiast Richard Lloyd, which has tracked all 21,000 balls released in the years since the BBC1 show was launched by Noel Edmunds in November 1994. There are 45 million possible combinations.
