Excel Lotto - How to find duplicate 6-number groups from result database?

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My database contains 1150 Lotto results from weekly draws over a 23-year period.
I want to check the 1150 entries to see if any combo has won more than once.
Such a combo, if any exist, will almost certainly be in a different order.
Ex: 7 13 21 30 35 39 could also appear as 21 39 13 7 30 35. Or 35 13 39 7 21 30.
Is it possible to query the database and have it show such entries? In color perhaps?
Or, if none exist, say, 'NONE'?
 

Abraham Andres Luna

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This is just pseudo code to give you an idea of what you will have to do:
FOREACH row IN worksheet[1]
SELECT comboRow FROM worksheet[1] WHERE num2 = row.num1 OR num3 = row.num1
INSERT comboRow INTO worksheet[2]
END FOREACH

So basically you select all the rows, and then you loop through them testing if the first number is equal to the other columns. Then you insert the matching row into a new worksheet. :user:
 

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