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>Even if the group developed a system for using public information to improve their odds, experts expressed skepticism that it could result in reliable profit.
by prvc 6y ago
>Even if the group developed a system for using public information to improve their odds, experts expressed skepticism that it could result in reliable profit.
My hunch is that winning tickets are not in fact equally distributed, and they have discovered something regarding this. Going by already claimed prizes gives some information, and I am sure there's a decent way to model the relationship between the set of claimed tickets to that of the unsold winning tickets (to account for the "safe-deposit box" cases mentioned in TFA, which strikes me as a bit of a red herring).
- jerome-jh 6y agoActually the winning tickets ARE equally distributed. They are not randomly distributed. Every roll/batch has the same number of small and mid-prices, let say under 5k$ to 10k$. As for the big prices they take care that they are evenly distributed across the country and over the lifetime of the game. A smaller scale trick is to social engineer the cashier to know which rolls have already released their prices, and buy from other rolls. Cashiers often tend to naturally do this with there best customers.