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Number patterns in keno<br><br>Two players each stake $5 on ten numbers from an 80-ball pool with 20 drawn. One marks 1 through 10 in a neat line. The other marks 3, 17, 22, 41, 48, 56, 63, 69, 74 and 80. Over the next thousand draws, both can expect the same distribution of hit counts, the same number of blanks, and the same cost against the same paytable. One card looks less "random", but the drawing machine has no opinion about shapes.<br><br><br>This follows from the model. Fair keno is sampling without replacement, and the only quantities that enter the probability of k hits are the pool size, the number drawn and the number picked. Which numbers were chosen, and how they sit on the card, never appear in the formula.<br><br><br>What does move the odds is the pick count, which changes the hit probabilities, and the paytable, which changes the return per hit. The pricing inputs are set out here: [[https://casinohouseedge.com/keno-house-edge/ https://casinohouseedge.com/keno-house-edge/] https://casinohouseedge.com/keno-house-edge/]. Prettier patterns with the same picks and the same table change nothing.<br><br><br>Past draws are no help either. Each round starts with the full pool, so no set becomes "due". Someone who shows three winning tickets from a favourite pattern has shown three tickets, not a method; the losing ones were not kept, and the comparison against ordinary random picks was never run.<br>