Continuing on with the silly experiment I am doing by picking “hot” and “cold” numbers in the MegaMillions drawing. I was out of town for the Friday drawing so let’s catch up on drawings 2 and 3, and we’ll keep drawing 1 as a reference:
| Number Set | 8/16 | 8/19 | 8/23 |
| Family Numbers | No matches | No Matches | No Matches |
| “Hot” Numbers (=>3x in last 20 draws) | No matches | No Matches | No Matches |
| “Cold” Numbers (=1x in last 50 draws) | One match | No Matches | No Matches |
| Quick Pick | No matches | One match | No Matches |
After one drawing it looked like the cold numbers would be the ones to beat, but Quick Pick jumped on the board in drawing number 2 with a match. Tuesday was a bad drawing for the lot, with no matches to the array of 24 numbers.
I did note something interesting that I had not picked up on when creating this. The “Family” number and “Hot” number set share a selection. So do the “Cold” numbers and the Quick Pick.
One additional thought I had is that if I had truly wanted to stick with “hot” and “cold” numbers for each drawing I should have reset after each drawing, but this method will work for our simple experiment.