Has It Ever Happened? Of course! Though it's extremely rare, there have been several instances in lotto history where the same numbers repeated across two different draws. The US Powerball draws on April 3, 1993, and December 27, 2000, both came up with the exact same numbers: 15, 22, 24, 32, 39 and a Powerball of 18.

Do all lottery numbers have the same chance?

The lottery is a random draw, which means the chance of any combination of six numbers being pulled out is theoretically the same. But the recent addition of ten new balls has reduced the chance of winning.

Are lottery numbers really random?

Without a machine to generate numbers with plastic balls, lottery machines nationwide have been generating numbers for ticket buyers in ways that may not give each number exactly equal chances of being chosen. ... In computer programming terminology, this is often called generating a "pseudo random" number.