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Quote: Originally posted by Romancandle on Jul 4, 2013
It is all about the odds... what's crazy it that 2,3,4,5,19 have the same odds as any other number combination to hit again tonight.
I struggle to wrap my mind around that probability.
Has anyone ever played the exact same winning numbers from the previous drawing the night/day before for the next upcoming drawing?
Does anybody know if that's ever happened for larger number sets (pick 5, 6, MM and PB)? I would imagine that it's more likely with Pick 3 and 4..
Yes, the odds of 2,3,4,5,19 being drawn tonight are the same as any other combination, 1 in 575,757.
But the odds of a sequential repeat depends on your gambling perspective. Let's say that an arbitrary pick 5 game has odds of around 1 in a million. If you choose one combo or the current combo, what are the odds that it will repeat on the next draw? About 1 in a trillion! But if you keep doing this over and over again on every draw, then the odds of hitting seeing a repeat come back down to 1 in million.
You can see this on pick 3 more easily. You will see a sequential repeat about once every 1000 draws. But if you select only one number or only one draw, the odds of a sequential repeat of that number you selected will be about 1 in a million.