how to win the lotto

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Firstly let me be clear, I don't play the lottery or even follow draws, but something going round in my head for some time are the possible results of a lottery draw.

The chance in a $6/49$ lottery is roughly $1$ in $13,983,816$ but that is also a big odds against any pattern to emerge, for instance, its very unlikely that $\{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6\}$ will ever occur, for that matter so would $\{2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7\}$ or even $\{1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11\}$.

This brings me to my question, is there a way to describe all possible "ordered" results and subtract that from the total odds? Wiki entry

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One should not be mislead in considering properties of numbers to derive "likeness" of particular lottery draws. Lotteries use numbers simply as a concrete device to make balls distinguishable and bets easy to make.

Were the lotteries use abstract symbols such as $$ \bullet\qquad\times\qquad\oplus\qquad\circ\qquad\ddagger\qquad\nabla\qquad... $$ to diversify the balls, all the numerical "coincidences" would just disappear proving what they really are: psychologically induced illusions.