Ya know Mink, it will happen some day.....
I called my daughter (she graduated from college in 2012 with her degree as a math major) and told her about the Great T5 Mystery. I explained to her that it has happened in many other states as well. I asked her if she knew any math or statistics Prof's at her former college that she could ask about why it happens as frequently as it does. My daughter still keeps in touch with many of her former prof's. She was their "fair haired golden girl" while she was in school. In her Senior year, one of her profs arranged an all expenses paid trip for my daughter to The University of Nebraska to present a research paper she had written to a convention of math geniuses. My daughter told me what the research paper was all about, but I didn't understand a word she said...... I had absolutely no clue what she was talking about.
She said she really didn't know many statistic's profs, but she made this comment; "It's obviously a lot more probable than most people think it is, because it's happened so many times in other states too."
I asked her why she used the word "probable", did that have anything to do with the subject of probability?
She said yes, that although the two subjects of statistics and probability are related, they aren't the exact same thing, and that it's most likely "more of a probability thing than it is a statistics thing." She went on to say that it could be the case where "Statistics says it shouldn't happen much, but probability says it can and should. The answer definitely can be found in Academia." By "academia" she means some Math or Statistics PhD at some college somewhere would immediately recognize it and tell you that "It's The blah blah blah Principle"
Ok with me I guess.... Hell, if I knew playin' the lottery was gonna get this deep, I dunno if I'd have bothered to play. I just play for the fun of it, and oh yeah, to win a big effin' pile of money which I could use to pay off my daughters college loans! G5