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Lottery lovers, we’ve got your numbers.

If you have a dollar and dream — and believe you can beat the odds — start with 14, 36 and 48.

Those three numbers have hit more than any others among the 414 winning Mega Millions tickets sold between 2005 and Jan. 12.

And since June 24, 2005, when the latest version of the game launched, they’ve appeared on the winning six-number combinations the most often.

That’s according to an analysis of Mega Millions payouts compiled by Matthew Vea, a consultant in Ernst & Young’s financial services department in Midtown, who looked at the results of every drawing over the last 4½ years.

The game encourages players from 12 states, including New York and New Jersey, to plunk down a dollar in the hope of becoming fabulously wealthy.

A player’s six picks must match the numbers that come up when officials randomly draw a half-dozen balls numbered 1 to 56.

With odds of more than 175 million to 1, jackpots routinely reach hundreds of millions. The record payout was $390 million in 2007. Tuesday’s jackpot is an estimated $121 million.

The number 14 is a big winner.

Not only has it appeared on 48 of the 414 winning tickets since 2005 (a rate of more than 11 percent), it’s been the second-hottest number during the last three months, averaging just 30.2 days between appearances on somebody’s lucky ducat, Vea’s analysis shows.

The number 36 also popped up 48 times since 2005, while 48 appeared 47 times. Three others — 53, 5 and 46 — hit 46 times.

Experts caution that every drawing is random, so playing “hot” or “cold” numbers is, statistically speaking, still a losing proposition.

“It’s perfectly natural that in a small sample size, 414 drawings, that you would have a [hot] number,” said NYU math professor Gerard Ben Arus. “But of course if you get a huge sample size, tens of thousands, it would equal out.”

The most popular numbers chosen by players for New York’s Numbers and Win 4 games are 111 and 0000, lottery organizers say.

After 111, the next most popular Numbers choice is 222, followed by 333, 777 and 999.

Among Win 4, they are 1111, 2222 and 3333.

Officials said that news events sometimes spur a run on numbers, such as 911, which sells out every year on Sept. 11, and 1549, the number of the US Airways flight that hero pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger safely landed in the Hudson River a year ago.

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A consultant at Ernst & Young studied the numbers picked for the Mega Millions lottery since 2005. The results:

Most frequent winning numbers

14 On 48 winning tickets — 11.6%

36 On 48 winning tickets — 11.6%

48 On 47 winning tickets — 11.4%

Least frequent winning numbers

47 On 23 winning tickets — 5.6%

6 On 25 winning tickets — 6%

49 On 26 winning tickets — 6.2%

OTHER US LOTTERIES

The hottest numbers in 107 state lottery drawings nationwide between Jan. 7 and Jan. 13 this year:

20, 23, 30, 42, 7, 32, 16

NY NUMBERS

Most popular numbers picked by players:

111, 222, 333, 777, 999

NY WIN 4

Most popular numbers picked by players:

1111, 2222, 3333

OTHER POPULAR NUMBERS

911 Sells out every Sept. 11 and won in 2002

1549 The number of the US Airways flight that splash-landed in the Hudson

(WFLA) — How do you pick your lottery numbers?

With a massive Mega Millions jackpot up for grabs Friday night, a lot of people are thinking about how to pick theirs.

Many people use birthdays, others use lucky numbers or their own system. There are almost as many ways of choosing lottery numbers as there are chances of winning it.

For the Mega Millions jackpot, you’re looking at a 1 in 302 million chance. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292 million.

Many players will look at the statistics. They will try to choose the numbers that come up most often.

According to LottoNumbers.com, the most drawn Mega Millions main numbers are 2, 17, 31, 39, 4 and 46. The most common Mega Ball number is 3. The most common main numbers drawn in the Powerball game are 26, 41, 16, 28, 22 and 23. The most common Powerball is 6. 

But what about the most overdue numbers? LottoNumbers.com also compiled a list of the numbers that haven’t been drawn for the longest amount of time.

For Mega Millions, the 15 most overdue numbers are 53, 36, 55, 58, 5, 37, 65, 50, 17, 9, 21, 12, 42, 26 and 47. The most overdue Mega Ball number is 5. 

When it comes to Powerball, statistics show 35, 40, 31, 26, 16, 29, 37, 49, 36, 46, 38, 44, 58, 10 and 21 are the most overdue main numbers. They say it’s been longest since 23 was drawn as a Powerball.

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