Six lucky numbers to win the lottery today

But despite their seemingly random results, you might wonder if there are any lucky numbers that win more often than others.

With this in mind, we went off and scraped 10 years worth of Powerball lottery results (US) and Lotto Max results (Canada) to see how these two lotto giants compare to each other.

How we found the luckiest lotto numbers to play

For this project, we used ParseHub, a free and powerful web scraper that can extract data from any website. We used it to pull the winning numbers from 2011 to 2020 from both the Powerball and Lotto Max.

We then analyzed the data we scraped to come up with the luckiest numbers for each lotto / country.

What are the luckiest Lotto numbers? 💸💸💸

We scraped 10 years of lottery results to find out.

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Luckiest Powerball Lotto Numbers (USA)

When playing Powerball, any number from 1 to 69 can come up as one of the winning 5 numbers for each draw (white balls). While a 6th number is pulled from a pool of red balls from 1 to 26.

While we scraped 10 years of Powerball results, the Powerball actually changed the format of their game in October of 2015, with more numbers being added to the pool. As a result, we based our analysis on the past 5 years of results.

After scraping Powerball results for the last 5 years, the luckiest white ball Powerball numbers were:

• 23 being drawn on 2.08% of all draws.
• 32 on 2.05% of all draws
• 61 on 1.86% of all draws
• 53 and 69 on 1.83% of all draws
• 64 on 1.79% of all draws
• 3 on 1.72% of all draws
• 21, 27 and 62 on 1.68% of all draws

But how lucky are really these numbers? On average, these 10 numbers were drawn an average of 50 times.

In comparison, the 10 least common (or unluckiest) numbers were drawn an average of 30 times. That means these numbers are almost twice as likely to be drawn as their unlucky counterparts (1.66 times as likely to be more precise).

Unluckiest Powerball Numbers

So, which are the unluckiest Powerball white ball numbers that get drawn less frequently?

Let’s breakdown the unluckiest numbers:

• 24 and 58 drawn on 1.21% of all draws
• 4, 26, 38 and 65 on 1.17% of all draws
• 51 and 35 on 1.06% of all draws
• And lastly, the unluckiest numbers are 46 and 34 on 1.02% of all draws.

You can now see that the difference in draws between the luckiest and the unluckiest numbers.

Luckiest Lotto Max Numbers

Now we turn our attention to the Lotto Max from Canada.

For this draw, 8 numbers from 1 to 49 are drawn (up to 50 since 2019, we will only look at 1-49 for this analysis).

We analyzed 10 years worth of Lotto Max draws and the luckiest numbers were:

• 39 being drawn on 2.49% of all draws
• 19 and 38 on 2.29% of all draws
• 18 and 44 on 2.27% of all draws
• 28, 1, 15, 22 and 24 on 2.24% of all draws

On average, these numbers have been drawn 110.9 times. In contrast, the bottom 10 unluckiest numbers average 85.1 draws.

Unluckiest Lotto Max Numbers

So, which are the unluckiest numbers for Lotto Max draws?

Let’s break them down:

• 43 being drawn on 1.85% of all draws
• 32 on 1.83% of all draws
• 21, 49 on 1.79% of all draws
• 29 and 34 on 1.77% of all draws
• 13 on 1.71% of all draws
• 4 on 1.69% of all draws
• 33 on 1.67% of all draws
• And the unluckiest number is 35 only being drawn on 1.65% of all draws in the last 10 years

So, What are the Luckiest Lottery Numbers?

Well, as anyone with statistical knowledge will tell you, this historical data of numbers drawn has zero impact on future drawings.

Meaning that using this historical data to pick your next series of numbers is as effective as just choosing them at random.

However, it is fun and interesting to look at all the numbers in hindsight and see what the “luckiest” numbers have been over the years.

Math experts insist it doesn’t matter which numbers you pick if you are hoping to win the massive Powerball lottery jackpot that is up for grabs Wednesday night. They say the odds are exactly the same for each number to get drawn, because the selection process is completely random and there’s a precise number of balls in the lottery bin.

There are 69 balls in the main bin, with five getting drawn, and 26 red “Powerballs” in the secondary bin, with one of those getting drawn. Based on those numbers, the statistical odds of matching all six winning numbers on any given night are 292,201,338 to 1 for a single $2 Powerball ticket.

• ALSO: Here are the biggest lottery jackpots in U.S. history

However, if you’re looking for some type of “advantage” to your Powerball ticket strategy, it can’t hurt to take a peek at the numbers that have been drawn the most often during the past seven years.

These five numbers have been drawn the most out of the main pool of 69 white balls in the Powerball lottery game during the past seven years, according to data from LottoNumbers.com.Len Melisurgo | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

Luckiest regular Powerball numbers

During the past seven years — between Oct. 7, 2015 and Oct. 24, 2022 — these five numbers have been drawn most often in the main pool of white balls (five are selected in each drawing) in the Powerball lottery game, according to data from LottoNumbers.com.

• 61 — Drawn 78 times.
• 32 — Drawn 77 times.
• 63 — Drawn 73 times.
• 21 — Drawn 73 times.
• 69 — Drawn 71 times.

A few other numbers have also popped up more frequently than other numbers in Powerball drawings during the past seven years, including 23 (drawn 70 times), 62 (69 times), 36 (68 times), 39 (68 times), 59 (67 times), and 20 (66 times).

Luckiest red Powerball numbers

These are the luckiest red numbers drawn during the past six years, according to LottoNumbers.com. (Only one red ball, known as the “Powerball,” is selected during each drawing, after the five main balls are picked.)

• 24 — Drawn 44 times.
• 18 — Drawn 42 times.
• 4 — Drawn 36 times.
• 21 — Drawn 34 times.

Four different red balls have each been drawn from the bin 33 times during the past seven years: 6, 10, 13 and 26.

If you are buying any tickets for the next Powerball drawing, be sure to check the results on NJ.com, which will be posted shortly after the numbers are picked at 11 p.m. Wednesday.

Note: Some material in this post was originally published in January 2021, but statistics on the most common winning numbers were updated on Oct. 26, 2022.

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