Essential Questions:

The UK National Lottery is a 6/49 system - you have to correctly pick 6 numbers drawn at random without replacement from the numbers 1 through 49.

What is more likely to win the UK National Lottery; {1,2,3,4,5,6} or {4,11,23,31,37,41}? Our intuition tells us that you'd be crazy to pick the first set of numbers - they seem so unusual .

This website from the operators of the UK national lottery lets you pick 6 numbers and show you how much you would have won had you chosen them for the lottery draws over the last few weeks. Try the numbers above or try your own 'lucky numbers'