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Reply #24

Karen Nathan — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 18:10:26 GMT

Florida Lottery Pick 4 has had 0000 come up multiple times, and so has 000 Pick 3 multiple times.

Reply #23

KY Floyd — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 18:48:41 GMT

Do you have a point you'd like to make

Reply #22

Big Joey — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 07:29:27 GMT

You can look back for over 20 years since Pick 4 started in Louisiana, 0000 has never been drawn, not ever.

Reply #21

Tucker Black — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 20:37:37 GMT

Why? It's just as likely to show up as anything else.

Reply #20

Big Joey — Sun, 20 Jan 2019 04:09:48 GMT

With Louisiana Pick 4, numbers 0000 has never been drawn, not ever since that game began with the state's lottery. Four Zeros have never, ever been drawn. I cringe when I see those numbers in people's predictions lists.

Reply #19

Stack47 — Sun, 13 Jan 2019 04:52:41 GMT

Check out Saturday night's KY lotteries Cash Ball results. Zero jackpot winners and zero four number matches.

Reply #18

KY Floyd — Sat, 12 Jan 2019 17:20:39 GMT

I think that RJ may have posted consecutive numbers, probably for Ohio, but I'm not sure. Here are a few things from a quick Google search.

A 2014 article in the Guardian (UK) estimates that every week 10,000 people played 1,2,3,4,5,6 in the UK national lottery. It also notes the Bulgarian Lottery, with the same 1 in 13,983,816 odds having the same numbers come up on 9/6 and 9/10 back in 2009.

In March 2011 the winning numbers for Florida's Fantasy Five were 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, producing 4... [ More ]

Reply #17

TheMeatman2005 — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 14:58:48 GMT

I don't know the exact answer, but whether you choose consecutive numbers or a variety of numbers, both have the same odds of being picked.

In the case with 1,2,3,4,5,6....... if those numbers were drawn, you would be sharing your jackpot with many others that also selected the same numbers.

Happy picking

Reply #16

Cmoore50 — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 03:09:40 GMT

Has five or six numbers in a row ever come up in a lottery? I'm sure someone on this board knows the answer.

Reply #15

KY Floyd — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:09:43 GMT

I once had a coworker who played 1,2,3,4,5,6. He figured that most people would think it's so unlikely to be drawn and wouldn't play it, so that if he did win he wouldn't have to share the prize.

Considering how many people do think it won't be drawn it's interesting that so many other people do play it.

Reply #14

Tucker Black — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 23:07:57 GMT

I always thought that no one would pick 1,2,3,4,5,6 because that's not random .

Reply #13

KY Floyd — Tue, 08 Jan 2019 19:06:13 GMT

the guy who picked 1,3,4,5,6,7 will get more money for second place than the jackpot winners will get for winning .

Well, you're making the possibly risky assumption that a straight series with one number missing isn't also a very popular bet. You're probably right, but I wouldn't count on it. Still, I wouldn't play anything similar and wouldn't have any skin in the game, so I'd just sit back and enjoy the irony.

Reply #12

Murgatroyd — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 00:53:36 GMT

And when that happens, the guy who picked 1,3,4,5,6,7 will get more money for second place than the jackpot winners will get for winning .

Reply #11

KY Floyd — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 20:54:41 GMT

There are enough drawings for jackpot games that significant numbers have been drawn quite a few times.

In 2006 NY lotto drew straight multiples of 5. The winning numbers were 5 - 10 - 15 - 25 - 30 - 35 and 6 people split the jackpot. There was only 1 2nd place winner in that drawing. Even back then the usual result for NY lotto was a rollover, and multiple jackpot winners are unusual.

If civilization lasts long enough eventually a lottery really will draw 1,2,3,4,5,6 or one of the other v... [ More ]

Reply #10

oate — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 06:30:27 GMT

https://www.calottery.com/play/draw-games/fantasy-5/winning-numbers/?DrawDate=1/14/2013%2012:00:00%20AM DrawNumber=7009

Almost 6 years ago. And you can bet there were the usual conspiracy theorists who cited the consecutive numbers as evidence the lottery was rigged, LOL.

Reply #9

Rexer90 — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 04:26:26 GMT

Same thing happened in California.. there were 5 consecutive numbers (I think it was 14, 15, 16, 17 18)... 29 people shared the prize, usually it's 1 or 2...

you just know all 29 were thinking no one else picked consecutive numbers.... Then the results came out about 30 minutes later.

Reply #8

Raven62 — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 02:38:32 GMT

110 Winners in 2005 made the LP News Forum:

https://www.lotterypost.com/news/110449

Reply #7

KY Floyd — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 22:37:26 GMT

Assuming you were running a lottery to maximize profit that might not be a good strategy. Not that the typical lottery player is using good logic in their playing, but bigger jackpots mean bigger sales. For the last MM run sales for the $548 million jackpot were about $116 million. For the advertised jackpot of $1.6 billion sales jumped to almost $740 million. That's three times as much money for the jackpot but more than 6 times as much sales income.

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Reply #6

rattlesnakerich — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 16:25:55 GMT

first let say thank you and all the others for taking time to reply. Yes I understand the shear odds of it happening.

I just think if I ran a lotto , such a title of record winners,, I would be marketing the claim on my website in big bold letters.

Reply #5

KY Floyd — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 09:07:39 GMT

Wikipedia has a page on lottery jackpot records that lists all US jackpots of $300 million or more. There are 42, and the current MM will be adding a 43rd in the near future. Lots of winners tend to result from lots of tickets, so that would have been a good place to start. It doesn't list the 2001 PB drawing, but MM also had 4 winners on 8/31/07.

there's never been 1 with a high number of winners, ie like say a few hundred

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Reply #4

winoneday — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:37:07 GMT

The largest number of Powerball jackpot winning tickets for a single draw was recorded for the August 25, 2001 draw. There were 4 winning tickets.

Reply #3

Big Joey — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 04:35:57 GMT

Multiple winners happen, when several people play numbers they see posted, like on this website.

If there would be a win on one of the Maddogs Challenge numbers posted, etc... then yes, there would be several people with a claimer for getting 5, or 6 numbers.

Reply #2

rattlesnakerich — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:23:20 GMT

thanks, that is interesting, I just think with Half a billion in prize money over several different draws would spawn some pretty high numbers of winners, just never have seen it reported and was interested in what the record is.

Reply #1

oate — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 00:16:00 GMT

I'm not sure about Powerball, but Florida's Fantasy 5 has had some really high splits

https://www.wjhg.com/content/news/Wednesdays-Fantasy-5-jackpot-split-17-ways-Winning-ticket-sold-in--384124451.html

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rattlesnakerich — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 23:42:30 GMT

please excuse me if this has been asked before, my question is what is the most number of jackpot winners of a single draw of the Powerball?

It seems out of all the drawings , there's never been 1 with a high number of winners, ie like say a few hundred. It just seems to me, I follow alot of state run lotteries and have never heard of it happening in thousands of total draws. Neither the lottery websites or google searches seem to help me find the answer as to the Guniess World record would... [ More ]