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| US woman wins lottery 4 times, sparks questions on her 'luck' |
| 2011-08-14 |
| Posted by:Bernardz |
| #5 Clint: I don't hold with gambling. Lee: He don't either. |
| Posted by: S 2011-08-14 17:48 |
| #4 What's a supposed genius doing playing the lottery? It's a tax on stupid people. When you have a working angle it's not so stupid. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-08-14 16:33 |
| #3 What's a supposed genius doing playing the lottery? It's a tax on stupid people. |
| Posted by: gromky 2011-08-14 16:20 |
| #2 Some one did something similar in Canada. The call came around 3 a.m. Toronto time, which was midnight in Nevada where Doug Hartzell was sleeping. It was his old friend, Mohan Srivastava, phoning from Canada. “He called me and said, ‘Man, I think I’m losing it. But I see a pattern in scratch lottery tickets,’ ” said Hartzell, recalling that 2003 conversation. “My reaction almost instantly was like: I’m sure he’s right.” Over their three decades of friendship, Hartzell has come to accept that Srivastava is simply smarter than most people. So when the 52-year-old geological statistician told him he could identify a winning scratch lottery ticket — without the use of pennies or fingernails — Hartzell believed him. “There’s been so many things he’s done that after the fact, people go, ‘Oh yeah, why didn’t I see that?’ ” Hartzell said. “But Mo has one of those rare minds.” Most people see a random jumble of numbers when they look at a scratch lottery ticket like Ontario’s “Tic Tac Toe” game. But for Srivastava, he saw that certain numbers appeared only once in the grids — and when these “singletons” lined up three in a row, chances were the ticket was a winner. He calculated this held true 95 per cent of the time and notified the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. Within days, they pulled the game — the first time in OLG history a recall was prompted by a customer-identified flaw. |
| Posted by: Slats Ebboluse4895 2011-08-14 10:58 |
| #1 ...She figured something out - but the Texas Lottery people don't dare say it out loud, because the you-know-what storm that will follow will destroy all credibility in how it works. She'll keep her money - it's not like the Texas Lottery will go under because of it - but you can bet there's some code types figuring out new algorithyms as we speak. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2011-08-14 10:44 |