4 of 5 Hot Lotto white balls repeat within 3 drawings

If the Hot Lotto numbers drawn on May 16, 2012 looked familiar, they should have. The reason is that 4 of the 5 numbers picked that night were also drawn on May 5th, which was 3 drawings earlier.

Below are the Hot Lotto results for those two nights.  Notice that 4 of the 5 white balls were the same (5-16-19-39) and the 5th ball was only different by one (35 to 34).

Hot Lotto Results

Date	B1	B2	B3	B4	B5	HB
05/16/2012	5	16	19	35	39	11
05/05/2012	5	16	19	34	39	18

So yes, numbers to reappear and duplicate combinations can happen.