![]() Otherwise you are far more likely to end up sharing the jackpot – potentially with dozens or even hundreds of other winners. So here’s a real lottery tip: Don’t pick numbers according to patterns like this. Unfortunately the owners of those tickets didn’t learn the lesson from last year, and will only be collecting $1,995.32, instead of $100,000 or so (if there were just 2 winners). The results were (drum roll please)… 1, 3, 5, 7, 9.īut again there’s a very good reason NOT to pick numbers like that. UPDATE: 30th August 2012Īnd guess what just happened in yesterdays Fantasy 5 draw in Florida. Because no matter how clever you think the pattern is, lots of other people do too. So they each win a very disappointing $4,581.ĭon’t pick numbers according to patterns like this. Those 47 people who all thought they were clever picking consecutive numbers all now have to share. Now normally only 1 or 2 people would win the jackpot on the Fantasy 5, and win a payout of a couple of hundred thousand. Look more closely at the results though, and you’ll discover that 47 people picked those consecutive numbers. We don’t see a pattern, it’s not memorable, so we don’t jump up and down getting excited about it. So it’s really not surprising when the 376,000 ‘boring’ combinations appear most of the time. Find all Florida lottery games, drawing times, recent and previous winning numbers, and everything relevant to the FL state lottery. All of which are as unlikely to come out as the non-consecutive ones.Īt best there are only a few hundred combinations that look exciting. There are 32 sets of consecutive numbers in a 5/36 lottery game. But folks, it’s just our crazy perception (see have lottery numbers ever repeated). I know it looks like something really crazy just happened. Just like the same lottery numbers twice outrage back in 2009. Because it’s more exciting to see something that isn’t really there. The odd ‘lone voice in the room’ all across the State could be heard quietly trying to explain that this is honestly nothing significant in any way, shape or form. The game is clearly fixed… and other such nonsense could be heard from every direction. Seriously, we’re talking gaping mouthed amazement when the Florida Fantasy 5 results came on screen. Due to this additional Wednesday draw the initial. An additional drawing on Wednesday is started. The numbers drawn matrix changed from 6 out of 49 to 6 out of 53. Florida’s lotto got major changes in 1999. Wow, you could have heard a pin drop all over Florida on Monday. Florida lottery set a record of 30 million revenue in a single day due to a huge 100 million jackpot in Florida Lotto on Sep 14, 1990.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |