Dedicated lottery players may want to consider moving to Delaware (and choosing the number 61) if they want a chance to win the jackpot.
A new study by Lottery Geeks found that the First State has the highest proportion of lottery winners of any US state.
And separate research has revealed the numbers most likely (and least likely) to be selected in the Powerball.
CSGO betting site experts analyzed the most frequently drawn numbers in more than 950 draws between 2015 and 2023.
He found that the notoriously unlucky number 13 was the least common, while the number 61 was found to be the “luckiest” number, having been chosen 90 times during the period.
The findings come as the grand prize for Saturday’s Powerball drawing currently stands at an estimated $935 million, the fifth largest in the game’s history.
A fascinating study from betting site CSGO analyzed the most frequently drawn numbers in more than 950 draws between 2015 and 2023.
A new study by Lottery Geeks found that the First State has the highest proportion of Powerball winners of any US state.
The cash payout, should he win this Easter weekend, is approximately $450 million.
Powerball is one of the most popular lottery games in the US, with more than 181 million Americans participating each year.
The largest jackpot in Powerball history, in November 2022, was announced at $2.04 billion.
According to Powerball, the overall odds of winning a prize are 1 in 24.87, based on a $2 play. The odds of winning the grand prize are 1 in 292,201,338.
The game involves players choosing five main numbers between 1 and 69 and a ‘Powerball number’ between 1 and 26.
To determine the “luckiest” numbers, last year’s study by CSGOluck.com took into account the most frequently drawn numbers in the main part of the draw.
After number 61, he found that number 32 was the second “luckiest”, having been chosen 89 times between 2015 and 2023.
Number 63 was the third “luckiest”, having been drawn 88 times during that period.
Powerball is one of the most popular lottery games in the US, with more than 181 million Americans participating each year.
According to the study, after number 13, numbers 49 and 34 were the least drawn. Both have been elected only 54 times in the last eight years.
Meanwhile, number 29 has only been chosen 57 times between 2015 and 2023.
Meanwhile, a separate Lottery Geeks study looked at the number of Powerball and Mega Millions winners in each US state and compared it to their overall population, to reveal the “luckiest” states.
The study did not evaluate whether those states had a higher number of lottery players since that data is not available.
Delaware has been home to 10 Powerball winners out of a population of 989,948. This means that the state has 10.10 winners per million inhabitants.
However, it has had no Mega Millions winners, reducing its overall lottery winning ratio to 5.05 per million.
Next was New Hampshire, which has 11 Powerball winners out of a population of 1,377,529, or eight winners per million people. In third place was Rhode Island, which has a winning rate of 7.29 winners per million inhabitants.
Indiana came in fourth and has the most champions overall, with 39. This means that residents of the state, which has a population of 1,097,379, have a 5.75 in a million chance of winning the jackpot .
Completing the top ten: Missouri, Nebraska, West Virginia, Kansas, Minnesota and Kentucky.
The study also looked at which states had hosted a Mega Millions winner.
Their results showed that Indiana and Missouri each counted two, while Kansas, Minnesota, Rhode Island and New Hampshire had one.
The data was obtained from lottery data, while the population figures were tracked from the US census.
The grand prize for Saturday’s Powerball drawing currently stands at an estimated $935 million, the fifth largest in the game’s history.
The Powerball jackpot is up for grabs after a lucky winner in New Jersey won a historic $1.13 billion Mega Millions jackpot Tuesday night.
After a series of 30 drawings without a jackpot winner, a ticket matching all five numbers plus the Mega Ball was finally sold in Bayonne, New Jersey.
But DailyMail.com analysis found the winner is likely to take home less than a quarter of the $1.13 billion advertised on the billboards.
This is because if they accept their prize as a lump sum, as almost everyone does, they would receive $540 million. After deducting taxes, they would be left with $280 million.
To make matters worse for the winner, New Jersey has one of the highest state taxes in the country, forcing winners to part with nearly 11 percent of their prize.
The winner of Tuesday night’s historic Mega Millions jackpot will likely walk away with less than a quarter of the $1.13 billion advertised on billboards.
The headline-grabbing jackpot amount advertised in stores, gas stations and highway billboards is not actually the amount lottery organizers have in the prize pool.
Instead, it is the total amount that would be paid to a winner in installments over 30 years if the sum he or she owns were invested in Treasury bonds. That figure is higher when interest rates are higher, as they are now.
It means lottery jackpots are now more inflated than ever and winners will be penalized more than anyone in the last two decades if they choose to accept their winnings as a lump sum.
“You have to pay Uncle Sam, the federal government, but also state taxes,” Andrew Stoltmann, a Chicago-based attorney who has advised lottery winners in the past, told DailyMail.com.