With the start of the school year comes the start of football season. Be it high school, college, or professional, it may very well be that football may have supplanted baseball as America’s pastime. Mega Millions isn’t a sport, but it has its own grand slams and upsets. With a jackpot now at $134 million, it may be soaring towards the stratosphere soon enough! As far as action was concerned for the August 24th drawing, it was more on the Combination side of things.
General Lottery Analysis
With winning numbers 1, 6, 13, 18, 49, and MB 8, the {3-1-1-1} Pattern made its 74th appearance.

Given the 387 Mega Millions drawings so far, this Pattern has played 19.1% of the time, and was last seen on August 14th, 2018.
The [3-1-1-1] General Order made its 28th appearance and has played in 37.8% of the 74 drawings where {3-1-1-1} was the winning Pattern. This General Order has also played in 7.24% of all 387 drawings. Prior to Friday night, the [3-1-1-1] General Order played on August 10th, 2018.
Now with two appearances, the 3 1 0 1 0 1 Specific Order has played in 7.14% of the 28 drawings where the General Order was [3-1-1-1]. This Specific Order has also played in 2.70% of the 74 drawings where {3-1-1-1} was the winning Pattern. When taking all 387 drawings into consideration, this Specific Order has played 0.52% of the time. The 3 1 0 1 0 1 Specific Order made its debut in the June 22nd, 2018 drawing.
Three Number Combination(s)
There were three repeating Three-Number Combinations:
- 6, 13, 18 (Debuted April 28th, 2017)
- 6, 13, 49 (Debuted June 21st, 2016)
- 13, 18, 49 (Debuted December 2nd, 2014)

Will Mega Millions see any Pattern encores or playbacks in next week’s drawings? Could there be another night of three repeating Three-Number Combinations?