Lucky lottery numbers

The UK National Lottery, like many other lotteries across the world, draws completely random numbers via one of numerous machines which are randomly selected and carefully scrutinised by independent officials. If this is the case why are certain numbers, like 13 for example, statistically less likely to be drawn than other lottery numbers? What is it that makes some randomly drawn numbers lucky lottery numbers and some of them less lucky?

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Tree stump predicts winning lottery numbers

People across the world have many different ways of choosing their lottery numbers. Some people use numbers that are significant to them like birthdays and phone numbers, other people may choose novel ways like the ‘cheese slicer’ which selects numbers for the EuroMillions draw but a community in Thailand claim that a tree stump predicts winning lottery numbers.

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