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• winsumloosesum

  

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  Can anyone explain why these 3 bonus ball numbers have the 3 longest out skips 68, 205, 56 (2 - 12 - 22)?

  I get it.  It's a random number game.  Anything can happen.

  They also have the 4th lowest hit totals.  21 - 17 - 21

  Maybe my math is incorrect:

  636 total drawings - 5/69 + 1/26

  636/29 = each Bonus Ball should hit 24.5 times

  Under achievers

  1

  2 - 12 - 22 (Bonus Ball Machine Hates these 3 numbers)

  23

  15

  16

  7 - 17
• justadream

  

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  It happens with all the games.  Some numbers just don't want to play .
• cottoneyedjoe

  

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  The 12 ball rolled behind the mini-fridge.
• Cmoore50

  

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  5	10	15	20	25
  4	9	14	19	24
  3	8	13	18	23
  2	7	12	17	22
  1	6	11	16	21

  I think this is the way the balls are stacked in the machine before the drop. 

   2,12 and 22 are in the same row. You said the other under achievers are 

  1,23,15,16,7 and 17...All are close to the bottom except for 15 (the exception)..This could have 

  something to do with it. 26 is missing because the lines for top row weren't there. You know 

  where it goes.

  GET IT DONE
• KY Floyd

  

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  "Maybe my math is incorrect: ... each Bonus Ball should hit 24.5 times"

  Your understanding of probability may be incorrect. There's nothing about probability that says anything should be selected some particular number of times. About the only "should" in probability is that all possibilities should have the same probability of being selected when the selections are random, but having the same probability of being selected doesn't mean that all possibilities should be selected the same number of times. It's not quite a "should" but the results of a bunch of random selections will almost certainly have some kind of a normal distribution where some possible results happen less often than the average, some will happen more often than the average, and some will happen about as often as the average.