Common number, hit number, target number: one idea, three names. Here's the honest explanation.
Players use different words for the same idea. A common number, a hit number or a target number all describe a two-digit number that appeared often in recent announced results. The terms are interchangeable — every honest list is built the same way: count how often each number came up in recent results.
Target tables usually show three columns: Direct (the full two-digit number), House (the first digit) and Ending (the last digit). A "house 4" means numbers 40–49; an "ending 7" means numbers ending in 7. These groupings come from the same frequency count — see our common numbers page for the real numbers.