On the way to one billion dollars, Mega Millions inadvertently started a trend. Earlier in the week, this lottery played host to a repeating Four-Number Combination. The urge to host repeating Four-Number Combinations was present in both Lotto Texas and Powerball Wednesday night! Additionally, their respective jackpots grew to $11.25 million and $60 million.
Lotto Texas
General Lottery Analysis
Lotto Texas greeted the night of July 26, 2023 with a {3-2-1} Pattern encore. With winning numbers 10, 23, 26, 30, 37 and 45, this Pattern made its 1153rd appearance. There have now been 2194 Lotto Texas drawings, and this Pattern has played 52.6% of the time. Recall that the {3-2-1} Pattern was last seen July 24, 2023.
Now with 160 appearances, the 1 3 2 Specific Order has played in 13.9% of the 1153 drawings where {3-2-1} was the winning Pattern. Once all 2194 drawings have been taken into consideration, this Specific Order has played 7.29% of the time. Prior to Wednesday night, the 1 3 2 Specific Order played June 19, 2023.
Similar Spread
There was another itch Lotto Texas had to scratch. Wednesday night’s numbers had a spread of 13:03:04:07:08. Similarly, on November 23, 2013, winning numbers 19, 22, 30, 34, 41 and 54 had a spread of 03:08:04:07:13. Note how the differences between numbers played were the same but their orders were different.
Four-Number Combinations
Repeating Four-Number Combination 10, 26, 37 and 45 debuted December 9, 2015.
Powerball
General Lottery Analysis
With winning numbers 3, 16, 40, 48, 60 and PB 14, Powerball saw its 57th Australia Play. The {1-1-1-1-1-1} Pattern, [1-1-1-1-1-1] General Order, and the 1 1 1 1 1 1 Specific Order have now played in 6.22% of the 916 Powerball drawings. An Australia Play was last seen July 10, 2023.
The Australia Play was just the warm-up!
Four-Number Combination
Powerball’s repeating Four-Number Combination came in the form of 3, 16, 48 and 60. This Combination debuted in the November 17, 2021 drawing.
Three-Number Combinations
Inside the repeating Four-Number Combination was four repeating Three-Number Combinations:
- 3, 16, 48 (Debuted October 26, 2016 and previously played November 17, 2021)
- 3, 16, 60 (Debuted December 27, 2017 and previously played November 17, 2021)
- 16, 48, 60 (Debuted November 17, 2021)
- 3, 48, 60 (Debuted November 17, 2021)
Powerball had room for three more!
Did Lotto Texas and Powerball have their fill of repeating Four-Number Combinations for the week, or will more be on the way Saturday night?