Well, here’s a lottery result sure to turn some heads. It’s no $640 million Mega Millions drawing, but it’s still pretty freaky. Last night’s drawing for the D.C.-5 game was all sixes. Sign of the devil or of end times?

Perhaps not. Six is a lucky number in some quarters, such as the Chinese business community. In Mandarin, six is pronounced similarly to the word for “fluid.” Fluidity, looseness, a steady flow of revenue—those are all good things in business, and perhaps someone picked it five times.

Of course, sixes are also unlucky in some contexts. In Cantonese, it sounds very close to the words for “drop,” “fall” and “decline.” So who knows what fate befalls anyone who picked straight sixes in last night’s drawing.

Then again, what are the odds of this happening? Well, that’s easy. D.C.-5 picks five numbers between 0 and 9 without restricting the same number from being drawn multiple times, so it’s just some simple arithmetic: 10^5=100,000. With two drawings a day, a result of 6-6-6-6-6—or any combination for that matter—should occur about once every 137 years. So if we get the same winning numbers any time before July 2149, then you can panic.