classic33
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Seven times, on ten pages.Here's a challenge: predict how many times this factoid will be posted on this thread.
SA lottery - nobbled?
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Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
Is the answer Mornington Crescent yet?
Tail End Charlie
Well, write it down boy ......
42?
newfhouse
Resolutely on topic
No, we‘ve been playing the Southern Hemisphere variation since Jo’burg. Keep up.
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
I was thinking along those lines too!
Maybe there are hundreds of them which have each run a thousand times or so? In that case you could be talking about low millions of draws. The chance of a particular draw once in all of that time would be reduced from billions-to-one to maybe tens-or-hundreds-of-thousands-to one?
Then you would have to look at the question "What IS an odd-looking draw?" There are clearly quite a lot of possibilities, which reduces the odds further...
Consecutive rising numbers separated by 1... 1-6, 2-7... 15-20. 15 sets.
Consecutive falling numbers separated by 1... 20-15, 19-14... 6-1. 15 sets.
Consecutive rising numbers separated by 2... 1-11, 2-12... 10-20. 10 sets.
Consecutive falling numbers separated by 2... 20-10, 19-9... 11-1. 10 sets.
And so on. I reckon you could come up with a hundred or so sets of numbers which people would find odd. Now we are perhaps talking of hundreds-or-thousands-to-one - still unlikely, but no longer astoundingly unlikely!
There are more than 20 numbers in the lottery
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
Oops again... Thanks, I was thinking of the SA PowerBall, which itself only goes to 20, but the others go to 50!
That obviously increases the chance of odd-looking sequences even further!
I'll edit that post...
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
No, hang on... The sequences I was thinking of have to be limited to 20 otherwise the powerball would be treated separately.
That is you could have e.g. 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 but then you'd have to include a non-consecutive powerball, 17 say. To get the run of 6 you WOULD have to stick to a limit of 20!
That is you could have e.g. 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 but then you'd have to include a non-consecutive powerball, 17 say. To get the run of 6 you WOULD have to stick to a limit of 20!
classic33
Leg End Member
There's 59 in the UK Lottery
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
I knew that somebody would start quoting numbers from other lotteries!
The principle holds though... 'impossible-looking' lottery number sequences start to look a lot less impossible when you have hundreds of lotteries, drawn thousands of times, and hundreds of potentially 'odd-looking' sequences.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
Just heard tomorrow night's Euro Millions jackpot is £175,000,000.
What the feck would anyone want all that money for?!🤔
Mind you,if i bought a ticket and won i'd buy Accrington Stanley for starters!🧐
What the feck would anyone want all that money for?!🤔
Mind you,if i bought a ticket and won i'd buy Accrington Stanley for starters!🧐
newfhouse
Resolutely on topic
What would you do with the other £174,999,900?Just heard tomorrow night's Euro Millions jackpot is £175,000,000.
What the feck would anyone want all that money for?!🤔
Mind you,if i bought a ticket and won i'd buy Accrington Stanley for starters!🧐
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
Then my next multi millions purchase would be 'Beckingham Palace'!🧐
https://www.heart.co.uk/photos/beckingham-palace/
newfhouse
Resolutely on topic
You’d hate it. Too far south, isn’t it?
