What are the odds?

Coincidences Can Be Expected - WSJ.com: "History isn't supposed to repeat itself in the lottery. But earlier this month, a 1-in-5.2 million shot came through in Bulgaria, as the same six winning numbers turned up in two consecutive drawings. And 18 Bulgarians profited by betting on recent history: They chose the winning combination of numbers from the drawing four days earlier -- which hadn't been selected by anyone the first time around -- and split the pot."

Comment -- This article notes that with lotteries held all over the world every day, it's not unbelievably impossible that the same six number would turn up two drawings in a row.

In 1986, a New Jersey woman won the lottery for the second time in two months. But Purdue statisticians found that the probability that somewhere in the U.S. in 1986 someone would win the lottery for the second time was about 1 in 10.

It just goes to show that with enough time and enough drawings, anything can and will happen.