PA Treasure Hunt Number Pairs

Which two numbers have turned up in the same draw most often, across 99 draws. With 5 numbers drawn from 30, any given pair should appear about 2.3 times by chance alone.

A pair at the top of this list is not linked to its partner. There are 435 possible pairs, so some of them will land well above average purely because that is how randomness distributes — and which ones do changes over time.

Most frequent pairs

Pair	Draws together	vs expected
1 8	11	+8.7
1 5	8	+5.7
10 30	7	+4.7
6 30	6	+3.7
1 7	6	+3.7
15 30	6	+3.7
1 30	6	+3.7
19 21	6	+3.7
4 13	6	+3.7
2 10	6	+3.7
1 3	6	+3.7
12 21	6	+3.7
16 25	5	+2.7
12 16	5	+2.7
2 4	5	+2.7
7 8	5	+2.7
18 21	5	+2.7
18 24	5	+2.7
3 25	5	+2.7
24 25	5	+2.7
14 22	5	+2.7
6 12	5	+2.7
1 10	5	+2.7
11 23	5	+2.7
4 7	5	+2.7

Consecutive numbers

52 of 99 draws (53%) contained at least one pair of consecutive numbers, such as 23 and 24. People often avoid these on the assumption they are unlikely — as the figure shows, they are common.

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