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kyokushin187

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Dec 5, 2011, 2:53 pm

I have always wondered if a set of numbers have came out twice or more for pb or mm or state lottery. Not including pick 3 or 4.
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Dec 5, 2011, 7:19 pm

I'm guessing probably not, and don't forget the matrixes have expanded so that makes such a thing happening even less likely.

Mega Millions replaced The Big Game, which definitely had a different matrix.

This is from a post from 10 years ago:

THE POSTED ODDS FOR THE BIG GAME ARE 76,275,360 TO 1

Compare that to the current Mega Millions odds.

Those who run the lotteries love it when players look for consistency in something that's designed not to have any. So many systems, so many theories, so few jackpot winners.

There is one and only one 'proven' system, and that is to book the action. No matter the game, let the players pick their own losers.
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Dec 5, 2011, 9:01 pm

If you really want to know just compare all the numbers in your data file with each other.

* you don't need to buy every combination, just the winning ones *
LottoGuyBC

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Dec 7, 2011, 12:38 pm

prolly once in every 300 Million Years or somewhere around there or not

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KY Floyd

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Dec 10, 2011, 1:35 am

I think RJ has posted some lists of duplicate combinations for some of the state lotteries in the past.

For lotteries with relatively low odds repeats become a virtual certainty after a while. I think one of th egames RJ may have listed if WV's cash 25, which currently has odds of "only" 1 in 177,100 and is played daily. If the game is 5 years old they'd have 1825 results covering more than 1% of the possible combinations. We could then expect that 1 out of every 100 future drawings would match one of the combinations that has already been drawn.
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Dec 10, 2011, 1:46 am

Quote: Originally posted by kyokushin187 on Dec 5, 2011
I have always wondered if a set of numbers have came out twice or more for pb or mm or state lottery. Not including pick 3 or 4.

as far as i know powerball nor mega millions have never had all the numbers repeat on the same line.

other games like pick 5 games in many other states have had repeated lines but they were years apart in most of them

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