The Luckiest Lottery Numbers
Do you play the lottery? If you play, you want the luckiest lottery numbers, right? My dad used to play “the numbers” every week with the hopes of one day hitting it big. But, when my dad played, we did not have these huge national games like Mega Millions and Powerball. Hopes for hitting big for my dad were in the hundreds of thousands, not hundreds of millions, or even a billion.
While times change, statistics do not. Is there a secret formula for winning the lottery? No. If you ask any statistician (like our friend Tara who is a stats teacher at a local high school) they will tell you that no combination of numbers has a better chance of being drawn than any other.
But what is the fun of that?
Maybe you choose your numbers by important dates in your life. Perhaps your numbers come to you in a dream. Or, you might simply let the computer pick them for you. But maybe, after learning what I did, you will change your approach to winning the big one.
Winning Powerball Numbers
According to LottoNumbers, these Powerball numbers have been drawn more often than any others in the past several years:
Main Numbers
- 61 – 96 times
- 63 – 91 times
- 21 – 91 times
- 32 – 90 times
- 27 – 86 times
- 36 – 85 times
- 69 – 84 times
- 64 – 84 times
- 39 – 84 times
- 62 – 83 times
Powerball
- 18 – 52 times
- 4 – 51 times
- 24 – 49 times
- 14 – 46 times
- 21 – 45 times
- 26 – 42 times
- 5 – 41 times
- 3 – 41 times
- 25 – 40 times
- 13 – 40 times
How To Play Powerball
You will select five white balls (1-69) and one Powerball (1-26). You win the jackpot by matching all six numbers.
Winning Mega Millions Numbers
According to LottoNumbers, these Mega Millions numbers have been drawn more often than any others in the past several years:
Main Numbers
- 10 – 63 times
- 3 – 62 times
- 17 – 60 times
- 14 – 59 times
- 46 – 58 times
- 64 – 57 times
- 31 – 57 times
- 8 – 57 times
- 38 – 56 times
- 29 – 56 times
Mega Ball Numbers
- 22 – 37 times
- 11 – 37 times
- 18 – 34 times
- 24 – 32 times
- 13 – 32 times
- 25 – 31 times
- 9 – 30 times
- 17 – 29 times
- 4 – 29 times
- 19 – 28 times
Here’s How To Play Mega Millions
You choose five numbers from the white balls (1-70) and one Mega Ball (1-25). You win the jackpot by matching all six winning numbers.
The Megaplier is a way for you to increase your winnings by a certain percentage. Before each drawing, a Megaplier ball is drawn. If your numbers don’t hit the jackpot but do match enough to win you some money, and you’ve upped the ante by buying the Megaplier, your winnings will increase 2, 3, 4, or 5 times what they would be if you didn’t buck up for the Megaplier.
