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2011-08-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-

US woman wins lottery 4 times, sparks questions on her 'luck'

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Posted by Bernardz 2011-08-14 07:51|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#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|| 2011-08-14 10:44|| Front Page Top

#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 Im losing it. But I see a pattern in scratch lottery tickets, said Hartzell, recalling that 2003 conversation.

My reaction almost instantly was like: Im sure hes 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.

Theres been so many things hes done that after the fact, people go, Oh yeah, why didnt 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 Ontarios 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|| 2011-08-14 10:58|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-08-14 16:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2011-08-14 16:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Clint: I don't hold with gambling.
Lee: He don't either.

Posted by S 2011-08-14 17:48|| 2011-08-14 17:48|| Front Page Top

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