Mega Millions: Infected

Some…interesting things happened in the lottery world this month. By interesting, we mean “Powerball fell in love with repeating Four-Number Combinations”. From that, we got the fallout Three-Number Combinations and then some. Come the night of November 29, 2022, Mega Millions caught the bug. As this lottery contended with a repeating Four-Number Combination, the jackpot climbed to $333 million.

General Lottery Analysis

The jackpot’s massiveness and the madness of a repeating Four-Number Combination was thanks to a {2-2-1-1} Pattern encore. Tuesday night’s numbers were 20, 23, 37, 46, 52 and MB 6, bringing the number of appearances for this Pattern to 231.

Fueling the madness. Source: lotterytrend-megamillions.com.

There have now been 832 Mega Millions drawings, and the {2-2-1-1} Pattern has played 27.8% of the time. Recall that this Pattern played recently in the November 25, 2022 drawing.

The [2-1-2-1] General Order, now with 74 appearances, has played in 32% of the 231 drawings where {2-2-1-1} was the winning Pattern. Once all 832 drawings have been taken into consideration, this General Order has played 8.89% of the time. September 27, 2022 was the last time the [2-1-2-1] General Order played.

Now with six appearances, the 0 2 1 2 0 1 Specific Order has played in 8.11% of the 74 drawings where the General Order was [2-1-2-1]. This Specific Order has also played in 2.60% of the 231 drawings where {2-2-1-1} was the winning Pattern and in 0.72% of all 832 drawings. Prior to Tuesday night, the 0 2 1 2 0 1 Specific Order played September 20, 2019.

Four-Number Combination

The repeating Four-Number Combination of the evening was 20, 37, 52 and MB 6. This Combination debuted March 5, 2019.

A repeating Four-Number Combo spotted! Source: lotterytrend-megamillions.com.

Three-Number Combinations

Naturally, scratching a repeating Four-Number Combination caused four repeating Three-Number Combinations rolled out:

  • 37, 52, MB 6 (Debuted June 14, 2016; previously played March 5, 2019)
  • 20, 52, MB 6 (Debuted January 29, 2016; previously played March 5, 2019)
  • 20, 37, MB 6 (Debuted March 5, 2019)
  • 20, 37, 52 (Debuted March 5, 2019)
The natural outcome. Source: lotterytrend-megamillions.com.

Will Mega Millions roll into December with an even larger jackpot and another repeating Four-Number Combination?

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