I dunno, Mike. If someone's doing it, they go way back and cut a wide geographical swath. It's difficult to imagine why they'd do it, want the same numbers to hit during the same dates over so many years and so many lotteries. Here's a complete history of MM, Texas Lotto and PB draws on the 6th and 7th of May, along with current from CA Lotto, Canada, Super Lotto South, etc:
CAN Sup 7
|
CAN 5/7/2005
|
5
|
11
|
17
|
25
|
26
|
47
|
Sup Lotto S
|
SLS 5/7/2005
|
3
|
10
|
13
|
24
|
26
|
47
|
Tx Lotto
|
5/7/2005
|
17
|
24
|
25
|
26
|
33
|
33
|
CA Lotto
|
CA 5/7/2005
|
12
|
14
|
19
|
43
|
47
|
19
|
PB
|
5/7/2005
|
21
|
23
|
39
|
44
|
47
|
19
|
MM past
|
5/7/1999
|
12
|
21
|
30
|
35
|
49
|
15
|
MM past
|
5/7/2002
|
2
|
22
|
26
|
39
|
40
|
11
|
MM past
|
5/7/2004
|
14
|
17
|
19
|
44
|
50
|
17
|
PB past
|
5/7/2003
|
13
|
18
|
34
|
35
|
51
|
28
|
Tx Lotto past
|
5/7/2003
|
1
|
11
|
17
|
28
|
41
|
40
|
MM current
|
5/6/2005
|
7
|
12
|
25
|
50
|
51
|
19
|
MM past
|
5/6/2003
|
5
|
14
|
32
|
44
|
39
|
24
|
Tx Lotto past
|
5/6/2000
|
5
|
11
|
19
|
42
|
43
|
48
|
A person might as well ask himself why the same numbers happen to pop up all over the map at the same time year after year.
To ask himself whether someone is messing with it, why they're messing with it, how they're messing with it, and how they managed to do it for so long a time without getting themselves caught certainly dovetails with the modern love affair with conspiracies, but Occam's razor just doesn't let that possibility into the final equation.
Sometimes the simple explanation has to be the only one left when you peel away everything else. The management has done everything in their power to keep this from happening. Those lotteries have had matrix changes, even the number of balls involved on those lotteries has changed and changed again. Canada Super 7 ain't even a six ball affair... it's 7.
The simple explanation: It's just one of those things that happens.
Or, if you prefer a metaphysical approach, those balls are a manifestation of something else.
Most likely, something we haven't allowed ourselves to consider, examine, investigate, because we know so much about what is not happening, what can't be happening, because we're really smart that way and know stuff. We're so stuffed with common knowledge, statistics, scientific rules we just know for a fact the other simple explanation is the one that applies.
We can ( to paraphrase one of the posters on another thread about this phenomenon) be sure it's not anything metaphysical involved here, not the balls making up their own minds when to hit, not some unnamed energy from the universe influencing them, not anything of that sort.
Just one of those things that happens, time to time, or maybe someone messing with the balls.
Jack