So a co-worker was talking about someone’s stupid plan to always play the previous winning lotto numbers. I chimed in that I was pretty sure that didn’t actually hurt their odds. They thought I was crazy, pointing out that probably no lottery ever rolled the same five-six winning numbers twice in a row.
I seem to remember that I am correct, any sequence of numbers has the same odds. But I was totally unable to articulate how that could be. Can someone help me out? It does really seem like the person using this method would be at a serious disadvantage.
Edit: I get it, and I’m not gonna think about balls anymore today.
In: Mathematics
The odds of the same number hitting twice in a row ARE low. but you don’t need the same number to hit twice in a row to hit the lotto. Only once. And in each individual drawing, the odds of any combination hitting are the exact same.
The reason it’s very unlikely the numbers would hit again are because it’s very unlikely that any number hits in the first place.
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