Two sets of consecutive numbers helped one lucky ticket to scoop a massive midweek lottery jackpot worth £11,749,355. The Lotto results on Wednesday 4 May were 01, 02, 03, 04, 20 and 21, and the number 22 was drawn as the Bonus Ball. Having two groups of sequential numbers appear in the same draw might sound unlikely, but it is just as statistically probable as the appearance of any other numbers, and it only seems otherwise because human beings tend to attribute more meaning and significance to sequential numbers than they do to non-sequential ones.
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