Running winners

Three numbers: 4, 7 and 17 all came up for the second week running last week, and 17 and 46 both won for the third week out of four. But long losing sequences have been ending steadily in recent weeks and only one number, 21, has now been out of the frame for more than 20 weeks.

The numbers with the dubious attractions of the fewest wins to date are 3, 8, 10 13, 19, 20, 24, 36 and especially 39, which won for only the third time five weeks ago. The largest number of outright wins belongs to 44, but including bonus balls, 28 still leads from 5.