Lotto Texas {4-1-1} Encore and Powerball’s Australia Play

As we’ve said before, everything repeats given enough time, and repetition is truly a lottery’s best friend. For Lotto Texas, it took two weeks for a Pattern and a Specific Order to make an encore appearance. Not only that, it saw the appearance of another Four-Number Combination. Even Powerball saw something interesting in the Pattern that played. We’ll get to that a bit later.

Lotto Texas

The winning numbers for Saturday, June 18th 2016 were 2, 19, 25, 28, 30, and 51.

Winning numbers from lotterytrend.com
Winning numbers from lotterytrend.com

These numbers played in a {4-1-1} Pattern which, as we hinted at in the introduction, played just two weeks ago on June 4th, 2016. The {4-1-1} Pattern has now played 151 times out of 1352 drawings, putting it at 11.17%. This Pattern gave us the 1 4 1 Specific Order, which also played on June 4th, 2016. Of the 151 times the {4-1-1-} Pattern has played, the 1 4 1 Specific Order has now played 54 times, or 35.76%. To date, this is the most commonly played Specific Order for the {4-1-1} Pattern.

For those of you keeping an eye out for Four-Number Combos, we saw one play last night in the form of 2, 19, 28, and 51, as seen in the red box below.

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Four-Number Combo info taken from lotterytrend.com

Prior to the June 18th 2016 drawing, this Four-Number Combo last played July 20th 2011. This was the year that social media really took off. Hard to believe that it was just a near five years ago, isn’t it?

Powerball

Powerball saw an “Australia Play”. That is to say, we saw the winning Pattern and the winning Specific Order be the same, much like Australia is a country and a continent. We saw one of these in the June 11th, 2016 Lotto Texas drawing.

The winning numbers for Powerball were 2, 23, 41, 53, 63, and PB11.

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Winning numbers taken from lotterytrend-powerball.com

These numbers were in a {1-1-1-1-1-1} Pattern, which has now played in 7 out of 74 drawings, or 9.46%. As such, the only General Order allowed is [1-1-1-1-1-1] and the only Specific Order allowed is 1 1 1 1 1 1.

Prior to the June 18th drawing, this Australia Play was last seen on April 20th, 2016.

Will we see more Four-Number Combos in Lotto Texas or will the rarely seen Five-Number Combo make a debut? Will Powerball go back to what it knows and play a more commonly seen winning Pattern?

Mega Millions Has the 4-1-1

For the past three Mega Millions drawings, we’ve seen one Pattern repeat twice in a row, and another Pattern break the mini-streak. Did the {2-2-1-1} Pattern from Tuesday’s drawing start its own mini-streak? No. No it did not. The winning numbers from the June 10, 2016 drawing were 34, 61, 66, 67, 68 and MB 7:

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These numbers played in a {4-1-1} Pattern, which has played 9 times out 276. Statistics-wise, this puts it as having played a paltry 3.26% of the time. Only one other Mega Millions pattern has played so few times. Have you ever seen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, MB 6 ever play? We didn’t think so!

Now then. This rarely played Pattern can have either one of the following General Orders:

[1-4-1]

[4-1-1]

Out of the 9 times that the {4-1-1} Pattern has played, the [1-4-1] Pattern has played 4 times. Given these 9 times, that’s approximately 44%. Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? Thing is, there are only two General Orders associated with {4-1-1}. Also, if we were to take all 276 Mega Millions drawings into account, the [1-4-1] General Order has played 4 out of 276 times, or an anemic 1.45%.

Of the four times the [1-4-1] General Order has played, the Specific Order 0 0 1 0 4 1 has played in half of them.

Will the next Mega Millions drawing see a more commonly played Pattern? Will the {4-1-1} Pattern cause an upset and start its own winning streak?

Lotto Texas and Powerball for June 1st, 2016

Wednesdays are special for us at Lottery Binge for that’s one day (Saturday is the other) that both Texas Lotto and Powerball play. We’re going to first discuss Texas Lotto and then on to Powerball. If you’re just here for the Powerball analysis, then scroll down.

Texas Lotto, if the name weren’t a giveaway, is the state lottery for Texas (Yee haw!).

The winning numbers for Lotto Texas are as follows:

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The winning Pattern was {4-1-1}, and it has played 149 times out of 1347 drawings to date. For those of you who are big into stats, that’s roughly 11.06%. Given the {4-1-1} pattern, you can expect the following Specific Orders:

1 1 4

1 4 1

4 1 1

To all the Texas Lotto players out there: this lottery has Specific Orders only. Both the Mega Millions and the Powerball lotteries feature General and Specific Orders.

Speaking of Powerball, this is the other lottery that’s played across 44 states, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia. Here were winning numbers for June 1st:

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Powerball had a winning Pattern of {3-1-1-1}, which has played 9 times out of 69 draws to date; that’s 13.04%. Here are the following General Orders you can expect with this particular Pattern:

[1-1-3-1]

[1-3-1-1]

[3-1-1-1]

The Powerball drawing for June 1st had the [1-3-1-1] General Order. The Specific Order was 0 1 3 0 1 1.