Enjoy learning Excel though. It won’t help you win but spreadsheets are pretty cool – all hail Visicalc that brought the spreadsheet to the masses.

Also, I concede there are no perfect patterns to be found in past lottery drawings but I can’t help but see occurrences, like numbers that repeat the very next drawing or numbers that are dormant and become awake hitting several times once they hit twice within a few drawings.

There is no perfect sure fire way to predict the lottery but I believe there are smarter ways to pick numbers than out of thin air. I can often pick at least one or two numbers that I’m sure are going to hit and they often do. I just need to get lucky on the other four or five. But I only need to get lucky once.

Besides, I’m learning a lot about Microsoft Excel in the process, that alone is worth the time spent investigating patterns and occurrences. To me, it’s fun, maybe one day it will pay off.

I agree, it’s never been drawn. But just like millions of other combinations (literally millions) that have never been drawn. You’re not wondering about most of those purely because they don’t make a pattern when you put them in numerical order.

Like I said above, the longest running lottery in the world has only had 15,000 draws. Most have been running a lot less than that.

There are many millions more lottery combinations than there have been draws.

So it’s actually of no surprise, or significance that consecutive numbers have yet to be drawn.

What are the odds when you combine all the worlds lotteries of having five consecutive numbers?

Exactly the same as them having any other combination!

The only reason it’s even on your mind is because you’re attaching significance to a ‘pretty pattern’. There are millions of other combinations that have never been drawn anywhere in the world.

Remember, it’s actually balls that come out of the machine, not numbers – the numbers printed on them just help us decide who won.

I’ve never heard of a 5 consecutive number winning combination.
It’s just interesting that out all the lotteries combined, none, have had this occurrence to my knowledge.

Wonder what the odds are when you combine all the lotteries in the world of having one five consecutive winning combination.

If you took the lottery with the lowest number of playable numbers and based it on that with the all the drawings to date with every lottery with at least that minimum number of playable numbers.

The longest running lottery in the world has had less than 15,000 draws. Most have had less than a couple of thousand draws. And there are nearly 14 MILLION combinations in a 6 from 49 lottery.

So it’s actually no surprise at all at this stage that there are combinations that have never been drawn anywhere in the world.

In fact, there will be millions of them!

Of course the newspaper headlines will explode with how amazing, astounding and incredibly improbable it is when 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 is drawn somewhere… But they won’t when 6, 23, 27, 34, 35, 37 is drawn for the first time anywhere in the world…

The only difference is the lack of what our brains recognise as a pretty pattern..!

It would seem that if randomness is truly at play this event would prove it. I realize the astronomical odds but certainly one lottery somewhere it has occurred or has it?

Common sense..? Nope, common misunderstanding.

And completely wrong I’m afraid.

You’re placing significance on these combinations because your brain can make a pretty pattern. But the balls don’t know they’re making a pattern – so why would they be less likely to come out that way?!

The fact is there is no such thing as unlikely combinations, in any lottery.

Imagine you were a book keeper; what would your payout be for, effectively a ,”straight” , on winning – 1,2,3,4,5,6 ? Higher than just some lucky dip? Yes

Common sense really