LOTTERY NUMBER WEIRDNESS

 Just noticed something on the PowerBall Lottery

If you reduce the Draw Numbers to an integer; then reduce the MegaBall to an integer... If the five Draw Numbers reduce to a value of NINE, the total of the Draw Number integer and the MegaBall integer will equal the MegaBall or reduce to the MegaBall: 

top example: 9+5=14

Bottom example:   9+5=14 & 1+4=5

MIddle example: 9+4=13 & 1+3=4

The second example is curious too...

 21=2+1=3

while 9+3=12 & 1+2=3

Of course, there is no way to determine what numbers will reduce to 9 -- too many possibilities -- and then one needs to pick the possible Powerball ... which could be done.  But playing all those combinations costs too much and only works if the draw is the numbers that reduce to nine ... and that's only a one-in-nine chance.

Still, it is interesting that numerology has already acknowledged, nine is a weird number.