6 from 1-59
Six from 59
The UK Lotto line in our list is six numbers from 1 to 59, with no second pool. Six numbers can be chosen from 59 in 45,057,474 ways, and the jackpot needs the one that was drawn: 1 in 45,057,474.
The size of the range matters more than it looks. A six-from-49 game such as Lotto 6aus49 has 13,983,816 combinations. The ten extra balls in a 59-ball draw multiply that by 3.22.
How many numbers a line matches
For any line, the chance of matching exactly some of the six drawn numbers follows from counting: choose which of your numbers match, then choose the rest from the 53 numbers that were not drawn. This is the arithmetic only; prize tiers are set by the operator.
| Numbers matched | Lines out of 45,057,474 | Odds |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 22,957,480 | 1 in 1.96 |
| 1 | 17,218,110 | 1 in 2.62 |
| 2 | 4,392,375 | 1 in 10.26 |
| 3 | 468,520 | 1 in 96.17 |
| 4 | 20,670 | 1 in about 2,180 |
| 5 | 318 | 1 in about 141,690 |
| 6 | 1 | 1 in 45,057,474 |
More than half of all lines, 51.0%, match none of the six. On average a line matches 6 × 6 / 59 = 0.61 of the drawn numbers, and three or more matches together come up on about 1 line in 92.
Quick picks and dates
A random line has the same 1 in 45,057,474 as a chosen one. It is less likely to resemble the lines other people choose, though. Dates only reach 31, and 28 of the 59 numbers (32 to 59) are above that, so a line of birthdays leaves almost half the range unused. Only 1.6% of random six-from-59 lines stay within 1 to 31.
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