Analysis of RKL's Lottery numbers

Basic information

        Balls drawn         Richard's success
# 1     03 05 14 22 30 44   two matches, one off by one
# 2     06 12 15 16 31 44   one match
# 3     11 17 21 29 30 40   no matches
# 4     26 35 38 43 47 49   no matches
# 5     03 05 09 13 14 38   two matches, one off by four
# 6     02 03 27 29 39 44   one match
# 7     09 17 32 36 42 44   two matches, three off by four
# 8     02 05 21 22 25 32   one match
# 9     07 17 23 32 38 42   one match
#10     06 16 20 30 31 47   no matches
#11     04 16 25 26 31 43   no matches
#12     01 07 37 38 42 48   two matches, one off by two

Analysis

• Initial analysis
  Provides a starting basis for further work. Select three from:

  05 13 28 46 48
  

• Hypothesis 1 - neither 5 nor 13 was chosen
  Hypothesis fails.

• Hypothesis 2 - one of 5 or 13 was chosen
  Hypothesis fails.

• Deduction - both 5 and 13 were chosen

• Find third number
  

• Find fourth number
  

• Find fifth number
  Limiting the other possibilities each time.

• Final analysis
  After a couple of draws with no further information, lottery 12 finally allows deduction of the full six numbers.

Numbers selected