Did you know that The Old G5'er has three adult children?
Yup. Three. A boy and two girls. Now my son, he's in the U.S. Coast Guard and he's doing just fine. My younger daughter is a college student and she'll graduate next May. She's doing fine too.
Then there's The Old G5'ers older daughter. She's a mathematician. Graduated from college in 2012 with a degree in math. She lives and works in Manhattan. And she thinks she's smarter than her Old Man.
Now I suppose you're wondering why The Old G5'er is bothering to tell you all this good stuff about his personal life. Well, that older daughter of mine (the mathematician) is buggin' me to death. See, she and I don't see eye to eye about how random the lottery is or isn't.
One day not too long ago, she said to me "Any given combination has an equal chance of being drawn as any other combination and that's a fact that you'll never change! And, the odds are the odds! You can't improve your odds, all you can do is buy more chances of winning, but the odds will never change, and YOU dear father, try as you might, can do absolutely NOTHING about that!" (If I'd have known that she was gonna use that college degree of hers against me while I was fightin' with her, I'd sure as hell wouldn't have paid for it!)
So I asked that smart-alec how come there's only been six times in the entire history of Take5 that five numbers from the same number group have been drawn? I mean, there's been 6500+ drawings and only six times has that happened! Why is that? Yeah, there sure is 575,757 possible combo's, but why has there never been a drawing where five numbers in sequence have been drawn? Why hasn't 1 2 3 4 5 been drawn if it has the same chance as any other of those 575,756 combos to be drawn?
Do you know what her answer was to that question? You'd never guess, but it was...
"It'll happen someday."
SEZ YOU! Ya punk KID! 25 years old and knows it all! She inherited it all from her MOTHER! There aint a single drop of my DNA in her entire body. G5