January 3, 2010

Bulgaria: extracts two consecutive times the same six numbers on lottery

The minister for sports in Bulgaria Svilen Neykov, recently asked for an inquiry on the national lottery, following the occurrence of an improbable coincidence, because the extraction of 6 September, and that of 10 September, were extracted exactly the same 6 numbers 4, 15, 23, 24, 35 and 42And although such a coincidence can physically happen, the chances of this happening are pretty remote at online casinos
According to the mathematical Mihail Konstantinov, The probability of this event occurring by chance is equal to about 4 million and 200 thousand, also three of these numbers have been extracted also in the competition on 13 September, for the third consecutive time then.

For National Lottery meets the president Maria YanevaThat holds us to exclude the possibility that manipulation occurred extraction of numbers, in fact, points out, the six numbers were extracted in a different order each time, and in the presence of a special commissioner who shall ensure the regularity, not to mention that extractions always happen on live TV.

Unsellable coincidence then? Probably yes, but you can not help but notice that the extraction of September 6 there were no winners, while in the next, when the numbers are repeated fewer than 18 people have guessed all six of them, another event without earlier, but above all, who could ever think of playing the exact same numbers before extraction?