What Are the Lucky for Life Most Drawn Numbers?

Are you feeling lucky? Lucky for Life is a highly popular multistate lottery game where lottery lovers join in and hope to win $1,000 per day for the rest of their lives. This amounts to a potential $5.75 million lump sum payout. Lucky for Life is played in 22 states.

We’ll explore how to play the game, Lucky for Life’s most drawn numbers (and least), game statistics, odds of winning and strategies for playing. 

Overview of Lucky for Life Lottery

Lucky for Life is a game of, well, luck! Get in on the fun for a chance to win great prizes, including the grand prize, $1,000 per day for a lifetime. Here’s how it works:

Ticket cost: Each game costs $2 to play.

Number selection: Choose five numbers between 1 and 48 for the main draw and one Lucky Ball between 1 and 18. You can also play Quick Pick (just like other lottery draw games).

Drawing schedule: Drawings happen every evening at approximately 10:35 PM ET.

Winning: There are several ways to win. The grand prize requires players to match all five main numbers plus the Lucky Ball.

What are the odds of winning Lucky for Life?

Overall, Lucky for Life odds of winning a prize are 1:7.8.

Lucky for Life: The Most Common Numbers

Lucky for Life started in 2009 in Connecticut and expanded across New England within three years. An additional 11 states joined in 2015. Daily draws make it easy to see how Lucky for Life statistics can come into play. 

Let’s take a look at the top five* Lucky for Life’s most drawn numbers of all time:

1. 28 - drawn 268 times

2. 1 - drawn 265 times

3. 15 - drawn 258 times

4. 4 - drawn 252 times

5. 7 - drawn 251 times

The top three Lucky Balls drawn* have been:

1. 9 - drawn 135 times

2. 15 - drawn 129 times

3. 1 - drawn 128 times

*Results as of Dec. 4, 2024.

Lucky for Life Statistics and Least Common Numbers

Many players believe that studying the statistics, knowing the Lucky for Life most drawn numbers and analyzing patterns of number draws can help them pick their numbers or decide on potential strategies. Or, in the case of the least common numbers drawn, possibly avoid those.

Here are the five least drawn numbers* since the game started:

1. 41 - drawn 189 times

2. 44 - drawn 200 times

3. 45 - drawn 201 times

4. 47 - drawn 201 times

5. 46 - drawn 205 times

Here are the three least drawn Lucky Balls*:

1. 12 - drawn 104 times

2. 7 - drawn 105 times

3. 8 - drawn 105 times

*Results as of Dec. 4, 2024.

Hopefully, knowing the most and least drawn numbers will help you pick your winning Lucky for Life numbers. 

How to Use Lottery Statistics in Lucky for Life

We hope you take this information with a grain of salt. Every number has an equal probability of being drawn. Just because specific numbers have come up more often (or less) in the past, it doesn’t mean it will continue to be this way. However, there is a whole area of mathematics revolving around lottery statistics.

Using the Lucky for Life most drawn numbers and probability theory, you can try to predict what numbers will be drawn. Probability theory looks a little something like this:

In Lucky for Life, there are 48 main balls. The first ball has a 1 in 48 chance of being predicted. Since numbers aren’t duplicated, the second ball drawn has a 1 in 47 chance of being predicted. The third ball has a 1 in 46 chance of being predicted, and so on until all five balls have been drawn. The math gets more complex than this, but more on that shortly! As a reminder, despite what the math might try to tell us, each number has an equal probability of being drawn in a single game.

Understanding Lucky for Life Odds

When you look at the odds of winning the jackpot for games such as Mega Millions at 1 in 302 million, the odds can seem overwhelming. But how do they come up with numbers like those or the Lucky for Life odds of winning the jackpot of 1 in 30 million?

Let’s do a little more math:

To find the odds of winning Lucky for Life, divide the number of winning numbers needed (in this case, six total) by the total number of possible lottery numbers. This formula will help:

In this formula, “n” stands for the total number of possible numbers (in Lucky for Life, that would be 48), and “r” is the number of numbers chosen. The “!” denotes a factorial where “n” is the number drawn times the next lower number times the next lower number until 0 is reached. As an example, let’s say the number is 4. The factorial would be 4x3x2x1.

So, in the case of Lucky for Life, “n” would be replaced by 48, and “r” would be the number drawn. Let’s use three as an example. Everywhere we see the “!” means we need to multiply. So, the top number (which is 48) would be 48x47x46 until we reach 0. The bottom numbers would be 5x4x3x2x1 (this represents how many numbers you need to select from the group of 48). Then you continue multiplying starting with the number drawn, which was three, so in all our denominator (or bottom number looks like this) 5x4x3x2x1x3x2x1. 

We won’t go into all of the math. We just wanted to give you an idea of how the Lucky for Life odds are determined so you know there is actual math behind these odds. 

Strategies for Playing Lucky for Life

Lottery lovers love trying out different strategies when playing Lucky for Life. From using children’s ages, birthdays and anniversaries to selecting lucky numbers based on horoscopes or employing more complex methods like number wheeling, there is no shortage of approaches to try. No matter how you play, remember that each number has an equal chance of being drawn. But that doesn’t mean that trying different strategies isn’t fun!

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