I read in the paper that somebody won the jackpot, carried on playing using the same lucky numbers, and won the jackpot again just a short while later! Is it true jackpot numbers are repeated?
Yes and no!
Yes, any set of numbers can be repeated. Lottery balls have no memory, they don’t remember if they got drawn last week or any other week. That means they have just as much chance of being drawn this week.
In fact, last weeks winning numbers have exactly the same chance of being drawn this week. Which is of course, exactly the same chance as any other set of number being drawn. And that’s why it “never” happens. Because there are millions of other combinations just as likely to come up, it’s much more likely winning numbers won’t come up again simply because there are a hell of a lot more of them.
Think of a dice. If you throw a 6, then roll again, are you now more or less likely to get a 6? The 6 is still there on the dice exactly the same as it was before. So of course, it still has the same 1 in 6 chance of being rolled. There is more chance of not rolling a 6, but only because there are 5 other numbers there. Just like before you rolled the 6 in the first place.
So yes, any set of numbers can be repeated. But no, they are no more likely to be drawn.
The danger again is in the myth and fake knowledge spread by ignorant people. Some people think winning numbes are more likely to be drawn again, so they pick numbers that have won the jackpot before - which means sharing the jackpot with all of them if you pick those numbers too…
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