LOTTO

trekhead

A strange thing:

The Bulgarian National Lottery has produced exactly the same numbers for the last two draws.

Being decribed as `a freak incident` nobody won on the first draw but a record 18 people share the latest jackpot.

The numbers were drawn in a different sequence each time. The numbers were:

4, 15, 23, 24, 35 and 42.
How mad is that !!!! :shock:

Anonymous

I'm amazed that there's 18 people who would choose the numbers that were in the previous week's draw.
Of course, the probability of the numbers coming up doesn't change, but I'm amazed so many people would try it.

Hercule Q

but its only 18 people out of several million

MacAndCheese

I use lucky dip....never thought to check if it's ever been last weeks numbers

supersonic

The wonders of probability!

Anonymous

Hercule Q wrote:

but its only 18 people out of several million

I know, but 18 still trikes me as a large number of people that would do that.
I'm wondering if it's some mathematicians, or other analytical types, who always pick last week's numbers, just to prove a point, as it were.

People at work think I'm insane for picking 1,2,3,4,5,6 as my syndicate numbers, arguing that "they'll NEVER come up" :roll:
Trouble is, if they do, I'm sure I'll have to split the jackpot with a lot of other similarly minded folk!