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I'm not sure I follow... You feel that his skills as an illusionist somehow helped him win on that scratch lottery ticket?

• eschneider 2y ago
  I used to be the absolute BEST at scratch lottery tickets. OTOH, "every ticket a winner" used to be a thing, and I had free access to an MRI machine at the time. Sometimes, you make your own luck...
  • WalterBright 2y ago
    I thought the people that administer the lottery keep track of the winners, and investigate any statistically anomalous winners.
    • eschneider 2y ago
      You may have noticed that "every ticket a winner" scratch cards are no longer a thing.
      • WalterBright 2y ago
        LOL, thanks for pointing that out! I didn't because I don't play the lottery, as lotteries are for losers.
        • eschneider 2y ago
          Lotteries are for losers, but scratch tickets are interesting crypto problems. Winning tickets are printed algorithmically and (at least around here) serial numbered. Given past winning ticket numbers (available via FOIA request, ask me how I know...) it's possible to determine winning serial numbers in the future. (At least in states that don't rotate their pseudorandom seeds, and some...don't.) Finding the winning tickets out in the world such that you can get away with buying just them is a harder problem, as they're normally sold 'in order', and going around THAT is the thing that gets your winning ticket DQ'd. There's always something nice about "free money", and it's achievable here, but an honest job is less work.