They may be drawn completely at random, but historic records held by Lotterywest reveal some Lotto numbers are in fact luckier than others.

Ahead of this Saturday’s $30 million Lotto Megadraw, many West Aussies will roll out the same sequence of sentimental digits they always have, whether fruitful in the past or not.

But statistically speaking, it might just pay to study the trends instead of banking on your children’s birthdays to make you an instant millionaire.

Crunching the winning numbers from the past 40 years, from July 1985 to mid-this month, Lotterywest reports the number one itself has been the most frequently drawn, or luckiest, contributing to the winning set of numbers 417 times in that period.

The next luckiest figures are eleven and eight, drawn 414 and 407 times, respe

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