October 7, 2020 was a night of contrasts to be sure! Both Lotto Texas and Powerball saw their jackpots rise, but they took vastly different approaches. Although still sore, Lotto Texas made peace with the fact that it’ll take longer to reach $47 million again and lived with a jackpot that inched up to $5.5 million. Powerball, on the other hand, was passing out repeating Three-Number Combinations like they were candy! The jackpot over there saw a huge increase from $52 million to $62 million.
Lotto Texas
General Lottery Analysis
Most of Lotto Texas’s energy went into producing a {3-2-1} Pattern encore. With winning numbers 3, 12, 20, 34, 36 and 43, this Pattern made its 954th appearance.
There have now been 1801 drawings, and this Pattern has played 53% of the time. Recall that the {3-2-1} Pattern was last seen October 3, 2020.
Now with 161 appearances, the 2 3 1 Specific Order has played in 16.9% of the 954 drawings where {3-2-1} was the winning Pattern. Once all 1801 drawings have been taken into consideration, this Specific Order has played 8.94% of the time. Prior to Wednesday night, the 2 3 1 Specific Order played September 19, 2020.
Four-Number Combinations
Repeating Four-Number Combination 3, 12, 20 and 36 debuted September 12, 2018.
Powerball
General Lottery Analysis
The {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern made its 201st appearance with winning numbers 6, 24, 30, 53, 56 and PB 19.
This Pattern has now played in 38.4% of the 523 Powerball drawings and was last seen September 26, 2020.
The [1-1-1-2-1] General Order, now with 56 appearances, has played in 27.9% of the 201 drawings where {2-1-1-1-1} was the winning Pattern. Once all 523 drawings have been taken into consideration, this General Order has played 10.7% of the time.
Now with 11 appearances, the 1 1 1 2 0 1 Specific Order has played in 19.6% of the 56 drawings where the General Order was [1-1-1-2-1]. This Specific Order has also played in 5.47% of the 201 drawings where {2-1-1-1-1} was the winning Pattern and in 2.10% of all 523 drawings.
Both the [1-1-1-2-1] General Order and the 1 1 1 2 0 1 Specific Order played in the September 16, 2020 drawing.
Three-Number Combinations
Four repeating Three-Number Combinations were handed out:
- 6, 24, 53 (Debuted September 11, 2019)
- 24, 53, PB 19 (Debuted March 30, 2016)
- 24, 56, PB 19 (Debuted September 23, 2017)
- 6, 30, 56 (Debuted November 11, 2017)
As the lotteries continue to settle into the “natural” order of things again, it hasn’t escaped anyone’s attention that both of them played their most commonly seen Patterns. The {3-2-1} Pattern and the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern are both notorious for producing Pattern streaks! Is such a streak on the horizon for at least one lottery?