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• JeetKuneDoLotto

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Nov 5, 2017

  Thank you! 

  I'm surprised that it's happened six times in 7500+ drawings.  Guess I'll have to cave in and upgrade to Advantage Gold.  G5

  Instead of upgrading you could go to Lottery America.  Except I think they only use three groups.  I dont really remember.

  Have you entered the place where the snow is stored? Or have you seen the storehouses of hail, Which I hold in reserve for times of trouble, for the day of  battle and war?  JOB 38:22 HCSB
  
• bossman48

  

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  Quote: Originally posted by GiveFive on Nov 4, 2017

  I'd like to know the number of combinations that are included in a "number group" in a 5/39 matrix.

  My definition of number groups are as follows: numbers 1 - 9 as the "units" group, 10 - 19 as the "tens" group, 20 - 29 as the "twenty's" group and 30 - 39 as the "thirty's" group. 

  The units group begins with this combination - 1 2 3 4 5 and ends with 5 6 7 8 9

  The first combo in the tens group starts with 10 11 12 13 14 and ends with 15 16 17 18 19

  I know there are 575,757 total combinations that could be drawn, but what is the total number of possible five number combinations included within each of the four number groups? 

  I realize all five winning numbers drawn from the same number group happens rarely.  It last happened on 12/25/14 in New York's Take5 when this combo was drawn: 31 32 33 37 39.

  If I'm correct, this is the make up of how number groups can be drawn;

  5 - 0 (all five numbers drawn were contained in the same number group - like what happened on 12/25/14)

  4 - 1 (four numbers from the same group, 1 number from a different group)

  3 - 2 (three from the same group, 2 from another group)

  2 - 1 - 1 (two from the same group, one each from two other groups)

  My thinking is that 2 - 1 - 1 happens most frequently.  Thanks for any help/insight. G5

  great numbers i will try them all thanks