Very occasionally offspring do have their uses.When I used to shop with the Snailets they'd pack everything really efficiently, separating goods into fridge-freezer-cupboard-biscuit jar etc.
I really miss them!
Very occasionally offspring do have their uses.When I used to shop with the Snailets they'd pack everything really efficiently, separating goods into fridge-freezer-cupboard-biscuit jar etc.
I really miss them!
I used to work in a small hospital where I shared an office with a colleague. We were walking between buildings to go to get some lunch and he was regaling me with a tale from his childhood about when a wasp had crawled into his ear and had repeatedly stung him as it tried to escape. I have no idea whether this story was true or not but have no reason to think it wasn't other than that it seems an unlikely thing to happen. To my utter astonishment, as he concluded his story a wasp flew down and stung him on the ear. I still can't quite believe it happened. But it did.
I'd believe him!
It's like the family who house was repeatedly struck by lightning so they moved away to another area. Their new house was also struck and they all died.
Are we being listened to.??
I don't knowe!Guess which books I had bought with my previous month's Audible credit. Go on, guess...
I’m thinking His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman? Am I close?I don't knowe!
And as stated in the article a lot of people are alleging fraud, a lot of people who don’t understand statistics that is...Winning numbers of the South African lottery are 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. I know in the scheme of things it means nowt, as it has exactly the same chances of happening as every other set of six numbers, but I do like the neatness. A coincidence of sorts is that my brother only ever bought tickets for the UK lottery on one occasion: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6; and 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. He won a tenner on each, so is still well in profit.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...in-south-african-lottery-are-5-6-7-8-9-and-10
You can see why I suppose. Are not the odds of drawing 6 sequential numbers considerably rarer than 6 none sequentials though? (45 years since I studied statistics so pardon my iggerance)And as stated in the article a lot of people are alleging fraud, a lot of people who don’t understand statistics that is...
No matter, as basically it’s going to happen at some point or other. Once you start specifying numbers that changes the odds, for example if there are 50 numbers and you don’t specify which number you are after there is a 100% chance a number will be drawn (assuming the draw goes ahead), but if you specify a certain number there is only a 2% chance that number will be drawn. It might happen on the first draw, it might happen on the 50th or could happen on the 100th. In the Euromillions lottery there is a certainty that the appropriate amount of numbers will be drawn. If you want a specific set to be drawn then the odds are 139 000 000 to 1. Irrespective of what the numbers are. Just as an aside I hate to think what the odds would be to draw six sequential numbers and to draw them in order! (Not saying that is what happened here). As to a large number of winners, that’s down to the fact that people don’t always choose their numbers randomly. For example to reduce your chance of sharing the jackpot in the U.K. lottery include number greater than 31, a lot of people choose numbers based on birthdays.You can see why I suppose. Are not the odds of drawing 6 sequential numbers considerably rarer than 6 none sequentials though? (45 years since I studied statistics so pardon my iggerance)
And as stated in the article a lot of people are alleging fraud, a lot of people who don’t understand statistics that is...
You can see why I suppose. Are not the odds of drawing 6 sequential numbers considerably rarer than 6 none sequentials though? (45 years since I studied statistics so pardon my iggerance)
As you'll know, a lot of the attraction of gambling is magical thinking. Gamblers are always seeing patterns where there are none.And as stated in the article a lot of people are alleging fraud, a lot of people who don’t understand statistics that is...
I don't know about the Bulgarian lottery, but is there a possibility that the people who chose the 'same' numbers as the previous draw, bought 'Lucky Dip' tickets, where the numbers were randomly chosen for them?In 2009 in the Bulgarian national lottery, the same six winning numbers were drawn twice in a row (once on the 6th Sept and again on the 10th but in a different order). A fraud investigation was launched because no-one won the first draw, but 18 people (including a syndicate of 6 policemen) shared the second jackpot. There was no evidence of fraud but I still found it strange that 18 people would use the same numbers as the previous draw, that surely must be pushing the probability of lightning striking twice.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...consecutive-weeks-Who-needs-Derren-Brown.html
In your example, of only 44 sets of the sequences I was referring to (123456 etc) against the millions of possible combinations of 6 numbered balls, I would say that was indeed special.There is a perception that drawing a set of 6 consecutive numbers is somehow "special". It isn't. It is just one of many possible "patterns" or "sequences" that catches the attention.
For example, if you take a lottery where 6 out of 49 numbered balls are drawn, the draw could be:
1,2,3,4,5,6 or 2,3,4,5,6,7 or 3,4,5,6,7,8 and so on all the way up to 44,45,46,47,48,49. This makes 44 possible sets of 6 sequential numbers.
But also, there are sequences like:
2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, or 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and so on all the way up to 38, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48. This makes 19 possible sets of 6 sequential even numbers.
Applying the same principle to sequential odd numbers there are 20 possible sets.
Then there are sequences like any 6 consecutive numbers from the series 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 ... 39, 42, 45, 48 (sequential ascending in 3s)
and the same idea ascending in 4s
and the same idea ascending in 5s. A lottery draw of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 would certainly hit the headlines.
For the more mathematically inclined, there are sets like 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36 (square numbers) and 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13 prime numbers, and 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 in which adding 2 numbers together generates the next one.
... and so on. Any one of these sequences would be noticeable, but that does not mean it is any more or less likely than one that "looks obviously random".
Every time someone wins, it is, from their point of view, extraordinary that the set of balls drawn exactly matches the set of numbers that that they have chosen. The only reason that there is a winner most weeks is that every week, millions of people choose different sequences.
Then you have misunderstood the point I was trying to make.In your example, of only 44 sets of the sequences I was referring to (123456 etc) against the millions of possible combinations of 6 numbered balls, I would say that was indeed special.
I don't know about the Bulgarian lottery, but is there a possibility that the people who chose the 'same' numbers as the previous draw, bought 'Lucky Dip' tickets, where the numbers were randomly chosen for them?
Except (and I only thought of this as I read your post, Mikefule), there are 6 out of 8 results that have mixed heads/tails and only 2 out of 8 with ONLY heads or ONLY tails. That would mean, um, [pause while using calculator and hoping for an accurate result] mixed heads/tails having a 75% chance of being the result, and only heads or only tails having just a 25% chance of being the result. I guess this is what gives the illusion that only heads or only tails are luckier results than any other particular result.Simple example: toss 3 coins, one after the other. The possible results are:
H H H
H H T
H T H
H T T
T H H
T H T
T T H
T T T
That is 8 possible sequences. All 8 are equally likely: 1/8 or 12.5% each.
I prefer to think people chose the winning numbers by themselves, rather than 18 lucky dips randomly coming up with the same sequence in the same week.
If I play the lottery it's with Lucky Dips because my Inner Gambler whispers that if I choose numbers for more than one week and then stop, 'my' numbers WILL come up next...Most people (80% or so) who come into my shop, are buying 'Lucky Dip' tickets. The fact that the numbers are randomly chosen by the lottery machine and then again randomly chosen by The Balls, doesn't affect the odds, does it? I have no idea whether the Bulgarian lottery even has a Lucky Dip function. But it's certainly more popular than people going to all the trouble and effort of choosing their own numbers.
Most people (80% or so) who come into my shop, are buying 'Lucky Dip' tickets. The fact that the numbers are randomly chosen by the lottery machine and then again randomly chosen by The Balls, doesn't affect the odds, does it?
However, it might affect how many people the prize was shared between if the rigged numbers happened to come up in the draw.
Yup, that's the only part of the process a punter can affect. As has already been pointed out, choosing numbers over 31 means if they come up, people who pick family birthdays won't have them so you won't have to share.
Yup but ages change and dates don't.Unless people are picking AGES of family members, rather than birthdates...
In my case, we're going to need a bigger lottery...