District Of Columbia Lottery - DC-5 General Analysis

Updated on Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Several analyses can be performed on District Of Columbia Lottery DC-5 past winning numbers. However, while straight numbers analysis was reasonable for 3-digit games, where there are only 1,000 possible numbers. It was not that helpful in 4-digit games, where there are 10,000 possible numbers, since most of the numbers were not drawn yet. When it comes to the DC-5 (a 5-digit game), straights analysis is just out of the question even after thousands of draws; there are 100,000 numbers.

On the other hand, box (any arrangement of the digits) analysis is quite reasonable for both 3- and 4- digit games with a few hundreds of draws. But, for the DC-5, we still need a couple of thousands of draws to identify the hot and cold boxes.

In the mean time we shall only classify the 100,000 possible DC-5 numbers into the various types of boxes and list their respective probability.

Note that while there are 100,000 distinct DC-5 numbers, there are only 2002 boxes (any arrangement of the digits). Moreover, numbers with one digit doubled are the most probable numbers to be drawn.