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Some Patterns, when they disappear from play, are never gone for long. It’s just one way they climb the ranks, so to speak. But, only one Pattern can be king of the hill. In Mega Millions, that Pattern is {2-1-1-1-1}. What shenanigans did it get up to November 10, 2017?

General Lottery Analysis

Friday night saw winning numbers 6, 23, 38, 42, 58, and MB 24, bringing the number of appearances up to 132.

With 305 Mega Millions drawings to date, the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern has played 43.3% of the time. This Pattern previously played in the November 3^rd drawing, exactly one week ago.

The [1-1-2-1-1] General Order made its 35^th appearance. With that said, it has played in 26.5% of the 132 drawings where the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern has appeared. When taking all 305 drawings into account, this General Order has played 11.5% of the time. Prior to Friday night, the [1-1-2-1-1] General Order was last seen on August 11, 2017. We reconfigured this from the [1-3-1-1] General Order that was a part of the old 75-15 system.

Now with six appearances, the 1 1 2 0 1 1 Specific Order has played in 17.1% of the 35 drawings where the [1-1-2-1-1] General Order has appeared. This Specific Order has also played in 4.55% of the 132 drawings where the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern appeared. Finally, when looking at all 305 drawings, this Specific Order has played 1.97% of the time. The 1 1 2 0 1 1 Specific Order previously played in the May 30, 2017 drawing.

Three Number Combination(s)

The repeating Three-Number Combination of the evening was 38, 42, 58.

This Combination made its debut in the March 10, 2017 drawing.

With November close to halfway over, and (U.S.) Thanksgiving right around the corner, will the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern make an encore in Tuesday’s drawing?

First order of business: a correction. In the post highlighting the October 27, 2017 Mega Millions drawing, we had mentioned that the “regular” numbers would range from 1 to 75, and Mega Balls would be from 1 to 25. The “regular” balls will be from 1 to 70. Mega Balls will range from 1 to 25.

What does this mean for Lottery Binge, and our other sites? The Lottery Trend-Mega Millions analysis team reconfigured our database to account for this new system, henceforth known as 70-25.

Do we have to start all over? Not at all! All drawings in the old system (75-15) that contained “regular” numbers 71-75 will be omitted in our Mega Millions assessment going forward. There are plenty of drawings that did not have 71-75!

General Lottery Analysis

Eerily, or no, the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern made an encore appearance in the November 3^rd drawing. This brings the number of appearances up to 131. The winning numbers were 10, 22, 42, 61, 69, and MB 3.

In the 70-25 system, there have been 303 drawings, and this Pattern has played in 43.2% of them.

With 30 appearances, the [1-1-1-2-1] General Order has played in 22.9% of the 131 drawings where the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern has appeared. It has also played in 9.90% of all 303 drawings. This General Order was seen alongside the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern in the Halloween 2017 drawing.

The 1 1 1 0 2 1 Specific Order made its sixth appearance. This Specific Order has played in 20% of the 30 drawings where the [1-1-1-2-1] General Order has played. It has also played in 4.58% of the 131 drawings where the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern has appeared, and in 1.98% of all drawings. Prior to Friday, the 1 1 1 0 2 1 Specific Order previously played in the March 24, 2017 drawing.

Three Number Combination(s)

And wouldn’t you know it? There was a repeating Three-Number Combination!

• 22, 42, MB 3 (Debuted March 13, 2015)

For our U.S. and Canadian readers, don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour Saturday night. Speaking of, will Mega Millions fall back on the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern in Tuesday’s drawing?

Before we begin tonight’s post, we would like to congratulate the Houston Astros on their first-ever World Series win. Go ‘Stros!

What a night! Whether it was gorging on candy, binge watching horror, or watching the World Series, Halloween had something for everybody. We can’t forget the number lovers, though! Mega Millions had the honor of falling on Halloween this year. Although October 31^st was the first day for the new system, the Mega Ball was not one of the new numbers (16-25). Was the old system not quite ready to give up the ghost?

General Lottery Analysis

Tuesday’s winning numbers were 6, 28, 31, 52, 53, and MB 12, bringing the number of appearances of the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern to 174.

This Pattern has played in 41.3% of the 421 Mega Millions drawings, and was last seen exactly one week ago in the October 24^th drawing.

With 43 appearances, the [1-1-1-2-1] General Order has played in 24.7% of the 174 drawings where the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern has appeared. Given that there have been 421 drawings, this General Order has played 10.2% of the time. We last saw the [1-1-1-2-1] General Order in the September 22^nd, 2017 drawing.

Making its eleventh appearance was the 1 1 1 2 0 1 Specific Order, which has now played in 25.6% of the 43 drawings where the [1-1-1-2-1] General Order has appeared. It has also played in 6.32% of the 174 drawings where the {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern has appeared. When taking all 421 drawings into account, the 1 1 1 2 0 1 Specific Order has played 2.61% of the time. Prior to Tuesday, this Specific Order was seen in the June 27^th, 2017 drawing.

Three-Number Combination(s)

The Three-Number Combination of the evening was 6, 31, 52.

This Combination made its debut this past summer. More specifically, in the July 28^th, 2017 drawing.

Will a {2-1-1-1-1} Pattern encore be how Mega Millions starts November?