Interesting Numbers

[weecalf]

On South African lottery 5 6 7 8 9 10

[bobbinwales]

No less likely tho than something like 4, 7, 11, 17, 18, 26???

[Buenchico]

BBC report here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55154525

Possibly not as confusing as the Serbian lottery though, where the number of one of the balls was displayed on screen before the machine had actually selected it!

[weecalf]

Oh aye bobbinwales see where your coming from they’re really are as unlikely as the wans I do .

[jno]

it's sometimes said that a lot of people actually pick 1 2 3 4 5 just as a lot of people have password as their password; if so you'd think that would mean the prize being split a million ways.

[Buenchico]

^^^ Quote (from 2014):
"It is estimated that in each draw, 10,000 people choose the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Of course, numbers that form a nice pattern like this are as likely as any other combination, so they are in no way reducing their chance of winning. But given most jackpots are around the £4m mark, if those numbers do come up, everyone will walk away with £400 each"

Source:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/nov/17/national-lottery-numbers-20-years-katie-price-win-jackpot

[Sunk]

*** typical.
I had 1, 2, 3, 4, 11 and 12.

[Sunk]

In November 1995, in the UK lottery, 133 player won.
Each player won £122,510.

The numbers don’t look like an obvious pattern, 7, 17, 23, 32, 38, 42 and 48.

However, when written on the entry form , they formed a vertical line down the centre of the number grid.