Pennsylvania Lottery - Quinto General Analysis

Updated on Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Several analyses can be performed on Pennsylvania Lottery Quinto 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 Quinto (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 Quinto, 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 Quinto numbers into the various types of boxes and list their respective probability.

Note that while there are 100,000 distinct Quinto 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.