Also mostly unrelated, but a fun read... here is an article from 1986 about Frank Maggio beating a scratch off promotion to the tune of millions of dollars thro

Also mostly unrelated, but a fun read... here is an article from 1986 about Frank Maggio beating a scratch off promotion to the tune of millions of dollars through a combination of finding a pattern in the way they were printed, and the loose rules of the game: http://articles.latimes.com/1986-01-19/news/mn-1227_1_scratch-off-cards http://articles.latimes.com/1986-01-19/news/mn-1227_1_scratc... Another article I read said he later went on to settle for "undisclosed amount of millions of dollars".