Lottery numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 – Have they ever been drawn?

If you are like most people, you think that lottery numbers 1-2-3-4-5-6 have never been drawn. Not only that, they will never be drawn in the future. That is because it is impossible. Or is that it?

Why has the 1-2-3-4-5-6 never been drawn by lottery? The simple answer is that the odds are astronomical. The odds of any sequence of numbers being drawn in a 6/49 lottery is approximately 1 in 14 million. So those numbers have exactly the same odds as any other sequence of numbers, such as 7-12-21-30-41-49. The problem is that the first set of numbers is very memorable and the second is not because they look like the usual sequence of numbers.

What happens is that the human mind tends to see patterns where there are none. Because the numbers 7-12-21-30-41-49 look like numbers that are as usual drawn, look normal. However, those numbers have probably never been drawn and probably never will, just like 1-2-3-4-5-6.

As an experiment, I have checked those exact same numbers against previous 6/49 results in Canada, a lottery that has been drawn twice a week for over 25 years. That’s more than 2,600 draws. You can do the same here. With both sets of numbers, the most matching was four. And guess what? It happened with both sets of numbers exactly the same number of times twice. So if you played both sets of numbers every week for 25 years, you would win roughly the same amount. Now, in one of those draws, the numbers drawn were 1-2-3-4-13-48; That happened on July 8, 1992. That’s pretty close to being right, don’t you think?

The point is that any set of numbers in the lottery, no matter what, has exactly the same chance of winning the jackpot, no matter what the perceived patterns in your mind tell you.