Did you buy a 1 billion dollar lottery ticket?
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Edofnor
Veteran XX
~THE KING~ 
I dinna win. 
brilliant idea
until you realize cash payout was 900 million
@ 37% tax rate
but great way to make a guaranteed -33 million
Esteban_Villa
Veteran XV
brilliant idea
until you realize cash payout was 900 million
@ 37% tax rate
but great way to make a guaranteed -33 million
To he fair u can also factor in the 30ish combos that give you a smooth million on top and quite a few 100k hands
If you math it all out you probably win 1% but ofc the splitting of the main prize will happen a significant portion of the time and actually makes it a losing play.
The Man who Cracked the Lottery - New York Times
This one is a cooler story.
Cliffs:
- A jackpot of $16M was won, winner tried to collect anonymously on the last day possible but was not allowed to, so they dropped the prize claim (suspicious)
- Investigation discovered the winner was likely an employee of MUSL (Multistate Lottery Association)
- Someone mentions employee's brother won a lottery a few years ago
- Comb through their facebook accounts and discover multiple lottery winners
- Search for the computers that do the random number draws, but the lottery itself destroys them for security purposes after certain lengths of time, but they find one computer that hasn't been destroyed yet
- Find code in lottery's random number generating computers that spit out predicted winning numbers on 3 specific days during the year
Basically this guy knew what the winning numbers would be on certain lotteries on three days out of the year, and would recruit friends to play those numbers and share the prizes. Told them not to buy a single set of numbers but a group of them so it wouldn't seem suspicious. Got away with it for years until he tried to collect a prize himself.
This one is a cooler story.
Cliffs:
- A jackpot of $16M was won, winner tried to collect anonymously on the last day possible but was not allowed to, so they dropped the prize claim (suspicious)
- Investigation discovered the winner was likely an employee of MUSL (Multistate Lottery Association)
- Someone mentions employee's brother won a lottery a few years ago
- Comb through their facebook accounts and discover multiple lottery winners
- Search for the computers that do the random number draws, but the lottery itself destroys them for security purposes after certain lengths of time, but they find one computer that hasn't been destroyed yet
- Find code in lottery's random number generating computers that spit out predicted winning numbers on 3 specific days during the year
Basically this guy knew what the winning numbers would be on certain lotteries on three days out of the year, and would recruit friends to play those numbers and share the prizes. Told them not to buy a single set of numbers but a group of them so it wouldn't seem suspicious. Got away with it for years until he tried to collect a prize himself.
Esteban_Villa
Veteran XV
Thank you Fool, Very cool!