The same five numbers were drawn twice in a single day for the New York Lottery’s ‘Take 5’ game on Thursday, making it an almost impossible probability to be fulfilled, representatives from the Lottery said on Friday. the lottery.
The results of Thursday’s draw for the game yielded the numbers 18, 21, 30, 35 Y 36 during the midday and evening draws. Experts estimate that the odds of this happening were 1 in 330 billion.
“That’s a 1 chance in 331 billion. It’s extraordinarily rare,” Harvard statistics professor Mark Glickman told The New York Post.
Those odds are way bigger than winning the $1 Powerball drawing, million dollars this Monday, which is only 1 in 292 million.
Lottery spokesman Brad Maione said the surprising results were not a mistake. “They are equal. The numbers were properly scrutinized and verified on the site,” he said.
The rare windfall offered New Yorkers the unusual opportunity to win twice in a single day on the same numbers, although no one chose the same 5 numbers both times.
In total, 52 people walked away with the first prize of $715 dollars each during the drawing on Thursday afternoon. There were no jackpot winners for the afternoon drawing. The total amount of prizes was $36 thousand dollars.
To play, people choose five numbers between 1 and 37 at 2: 15 pm for the afternoon draw, and another five numbers for the evening draw at 10: 20 pm
Players would have had to buy two tickets to win with the same numbers twice on Thursday.
Prizes start with matching just two numbers and prices increase to the jackpot for matching all five numbers.
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