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Then there's the woman with a Stanford Ph.D. in statistics who has won million-dollar lottery prizes 4 times - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023514/J

• nl 11y ago
  She has a friend (Anna Morales) who's won a number of smaller prizes too[1]. Seems a fairly unlikely co-incidence. There's the Canadian statistician who found a weakness in the algorithm producing "random" scratchie tickets[2]. [1] http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/How_lottery_legend_Joan_Ginther_used_odds_Uncle_Sam_to_win_millions.html http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/How_lottery_l... [2] http://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff_lottery/ http://www.wired.com/2011/01/ff_lottery/