Some amazing lottery number coincidences that even the best brains can't figure out

The Israeli lottery drew the same numbers twice in less than 4 weeks apart in 2010 Photo: Mr Reid

"So, where do you live?" the salesman enquired pleasantly, making small talk as he led us around the store. "Are you local?"

I told him the road.

He stopped and said, "That's interesting. I live below your road, I think. I've always looked up and admired the houses up there - particularly the big modern one with the zigzag roof."

"Well, that's ours," I said.

"Is it!" he said in surprise. "What a coincidence."

In another unusual event, Draw 640 exact numbers in the Korea Lottery also appeared in Draw 64 Image: Lottolyzer

He told us where he lived, and I said, "I can see your place from ours."

There was more of a coincidence than I was willing to let on. A couple of years earlier, after admiring the color of a house further down the hillside for a while, I had mine painted in the same shade.

That was his house.

You also get a lot of coincidences too in lottery games which seem extraordinary, and often start a lot of false theories:

On Sept. 11, 2002 -9/11/02, the New York State lottery numbers were 9, 11.
In 2009 a 1-in-5.2 million shot came through in Bulgaria, when the same 6 winning numbers turned up in two consecutive drawings - 4, 15, 23, 24, 35, and 42.
In 2010 the Israeli lottery had drawn the same six numbers twice in less than 4 weeks.
In France a player won $4 million in the lottery - twice, 15 years apart.

These French coincidences show it’s not rare: A player hit $3 million on two occasions in 1994 and 1997.

Another pocketed 675,000 euro in 1992 and 7 million euro seven years later.

In 1991, another player won 2 million Lotto Sports, and 9 million in Lotto in 2010.

The last 3 numbers of a Thai lottery matched the 5404 licence plate number of the Thai prime minister Photo: Supplied

And in another strange coincidence, the last three digits of Thai Lottery’s Sunday first prize lottery–number 531404, matched the 5404 license plate number of this Volkswagen mini-van…

…the very one used by Thai caretaker Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at the time.