In Wired, Jonah Lehrer profiles Mohan Srivastava, a Toronto statistician who seemingly cracked the scratch-lottery ticket code. “The tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed,” writes Lehrer. “It took a few hours of studying his tickets and some statistical sleuthing, but he discovered a defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential information about the digits hidden under the latex coating. Nothing needed to be scratched off-the ticket could be cracked if you knew the secret code.” Srivastava took his findings to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation, and the game was quickly pulled from stores, but Lehrer wonders if Srivastava is the only person to have cracked a lottery: “Consider a?series of reports by the Massachusetts state auditor. The reports describe a long list of troubling findings, such as the fact that one person cashed in 1,588 winning tickets between 2002 and 2004 for a grand total of $2.84 million. (The report does not provide the name of the lucky winner.) A 1999 audit found that another person cashed in 149 tickets worth $237,000, while the top 10 multiple-prize winners had won 842 times for a total of $1.8 million. Since only six out of every 100,000 tickets yield a prize between $1,000 and $5,000, the auditor dryly observed that these ‘fortunate’ players would have needed to buy ‘hundreds of thousands to millions of tickets.’” There’s a lot more to be said — a lot more that has been said, on this blog — about lotteries; and there’s also the no-lose lottery to consider. (HT: Johnny Tullner) [%comments]
Cracking the Lottery Code
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For those who wonder how could you choose specific ticket.,the way OLG works is if you buy scratch tickets, the clerk will show you the tickets and you choose which one you want. (although they have limited tickets on the display and you have to choose from those, but still you have an option to buy the one you want to) however, it doesn’t work if you buy lottery tickets like 649 or lotto max. In Max or 649 you can either choose your own numbers or you can let machine give you random numbers
On the other side of the “Hidden Side of Everything” is the possibility that we can improve the probability of winning the lottery by using the predictive ability of the mind. I know it sounds incredulous. Bur, Dr. Gopala in “Dream a Lottery Win Today http://www.winning-the-lottery.org/ argues that this is a credible lottery system. We need to think outside our cultural norms. We need to think like a yogi. But if he is right, we may see the same people win many lotteries in the future.
There is such a way to win the Pick 3 and Pick 4 games just by playing the Lottery Systems patterns revealed from past winning numbers. http://www.lotterycodebreaker.com shows how to reveal two of the Pick 3 numbers and three of the Pick 4 numbers that may play in a Midday or Evening drawing; then, how to play them to ensure a win. Angela Lester is the author of the book, Lottery Code Breaker sharing this new found knowledge she uncovered. She has opened the eyes of experts who acknowledge these patterns and number sequences playing off of both the Pick 3 and Pick 4 do actually exist, systematically and not always mathematically random as the Lottery System advertises. She recently did a video showing the pattern that’s playing this month in Maryland accurately predicting three of the pick 4 numbers that played Midday the same day she did the video (Sat, Feb 19th). She did hit the Midday Pick 4 and yesterday, Tues, Feb 22, that same pattern played again allowing her to hit the Midday Pick 3. With every system there are mechanics that drives it. If you’re able to figure out what these mechnanics are, you are a constant winner at these games. I have had repeat hits throughtout the month just from using the patterns and number sequences she teaches in her book and now at her website.