Lottery scratchoff tickets fatally statistically flawed

[papajohn56]

Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code | Magazine

Step 1: Learn statistics
Step 2: Crack game of choice
Step 3: Make $600/day on scratchoffs
Step 4: ???
Step 5: Profit!

 

[cardine]

This makes me want to crack one of these and scale it up.

 

[Andrew Scherer]

Step 1: Learn statistics
Step 2: Crack game of choice
Step 3: Make $600/day on scratchoffs
Step 4: Tell the lottery about your system.
Step 5: Do not profit, do not pass go.

 

[greenleaves]

am I the only one that thought that news article is perfect to sell a winning lottery system e-book?

 

[galacon]

am I the only one that thought that news article is perfect to sell a winning lottery system e-book?

Jump on it brah- smells like an instant WSO winner to me.

 

[bauss]

great read.

 

[jabbering99]

Step 1: Learn statistics
Step 2: Crack game of choice
Step 3: Make $600/day on scratchoffs
Step 4: Tell the lottery about your system.
Step 5: Do not profit, do not pass go.

haha

+1

 

[fatmoocow]

One of many ways to launder money that the govt hasn't really figured out yet. Wasting too much time on banks, not enough time on everything else.

 

[interwebmarketr]

Time to dust off the ol' stats textbook.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

As a trained statistician with degrees from MIT and Stanford University...

Guess that eliminates me.

 

[papajohn56]

Guess that eliminates me.

Roll with me, we'll make a system in MATLAB to fuck over every lottery scratchoff game in the US

 

[GerardWon]

I always kinda felt that there must be some type of "lighting system" -- (xray, infrared, whatever) that would let you look through unscratchd tix to see the winners.

 

[greyhat]

Just won £15 on one of those!! lol gonna read tht and see what it has to say!.

 

[matthew1471]

Why don't the lottery manufacturers cover the grid with latex too?