The drawing in this case was for Tuesday's multistate Mega Millions jackpot, which had no winner and pushed the prize to an estimated $382 million cash payout.
The four-in-a-row pattern is certainly not typical in recent winning Mega Millions numbers... but no drawings with four consecutive numbers.
First off, we must determine how many possible combinations of the five numbers there are. The formula, for the math savvy, is n!/(r!(n-r)!), where n is the total number of balls (70), and r is the number of balls drawn (five).
With two drawings a week, there have been several sets of two consecutive numbers in the last year, and in September there were three in a row, 55-56-57.
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