Tonights lottery numbers

[Swordfish]

On my ever hopeful checking of lottery numbers tonight I was surprised to see the numbers that were drawn.

They were: 20 21 23 24 27 28

With these numbers I thoguh oh well looks like another rollover !

How wrong

11 winners un-real or what.

Good luck to them btw

 

[Steve2000]

I suppose it's still feasible picking such numbers, after all it is still one chance out of 48 in each slot.

 

[Berserker]

People often pick number patterns on the playslip - after all the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 have just as much chance as any others of winning the lottery. If you want a big win then of course you should avoid such popular numbers.

It's the first ever lottery with all six main numbers being the same colour too.

http://lottery.merseyworld.com/archive/Lott1336.html

And for all the geeks in the house, the next one is 1337.

 

[_PD_]

Chance of your numbers coming up are the same as them being 1 2 3 4 5 6.

How wierd would that be?

 

[Berserker]

See what I mean about popular numbers.

 

[Steve2000]

Chance of your numbers coming up are the same as them being 1 2 3 4 5 6.

How wierd would that be?

Even more if the bonus ball was 7.

 

[gillywibble]

Chance of your numbers coming up are the same as them being 1 2 3 4 5 6.

How wierd would that be?

You wouldn't win much. IIRC an estimated 35,000 people choose these numbers every week.

 

[mame]

My balls didn't drop

 

[JIM_BOB7813]

after all the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 have just as much chance as any others of winning the lottery.

Should be true, but it isn't, some numbers occur significantly more than others.

 

[stoofa]

As long as numbers drawn are below 31 then there is always a very good chance it will be won.
Remember people choose birthdays for lottery numbers - so tonights draw was ripe for winning.

 

[Atrox Moris]

I put two lines on a week. One midweek, the other Saturday. I haven't even managed to win a tenner in months. And I won't change my numbers or get a lucky dip, because with my luck, the day I do will be the day my original numbers come up. But by that logic, the day I don't pick a lucky dip will be the day the person behind me in the queue gets a lucky dip and their numbers come up. And all the time I'm starring at the cashier with this going on inside my head and I cry a little.

 

[gillywibble]

Should be true, but it isn't, some numbers occur significantly more than others.

We can analyse it properly after 14 million draws.

 

[Hxc]

Phttp://lottery.merseyworld.com/archive/Lott1336.html

The guy who made that website is far too obsessed with the lottery for his own good

 

[jellybeard999]

Its very simplistic looking at it as

1 in 49 x 1 in 49.... etc

There will be further calculations to take into account frequency previously drawn, likelihood of consecutive numbers etc

 

[Converge]

My balls didn't drop

I laughed at this

 

[Ham]

Don't most people do lucky dips now?

 

[chiggz]

There will be further calculations to take into account frequency previously drawn, likelihood of consecutive numbers etc

huh? how? why?

 

[Feek]

Don't most people do lucky dips now?

Huh? What makes you even think that, let alone say it?

 

[DarkJedi]

I'm sure you're all right about equal chance and I'm way out, could you mathematically prove it to me...surely for a sequence it would HAVE to follow a set pattern which is less chance of a random pattern, surely? i.e. we have 1 number say 6, the next would HAVE to be in the small range to make the sequence whereas a random pattern could be ANY number from 1-49.

 

[aslco]

My balls didn't drop

LOL so immature but i actually laughed for a while at that.