do all the lottery results have the same odds

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I was thinking do all the results have the same odds in say a standard 8 ball lottery, it feels like to me you’re less likely to get a sequential set (eg. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, not necessarily drawn in that order) than get a heap of balls at random, it just makes me wonder if the odds are the same or if I’m over thinking.

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Assuming all balls are numbered 0-9 then you have a 1 in 100,000,000 of getting any single outcome. From 00000000 to 99999999 it seems unlikely that 00000001 would be a result, but it’s just as likely as 12674562. The odds are never in your favor.

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