How to Hack the Lottery (from a 2600 Magazine article published in 2004)

Re:How to Hack the Lottery (from a 2600 Magazine article pub... by redthrowaway on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @07:01PM (#2168122)

A "(Hint: You can't)" would have saved me, and everyone else who knows how to calculate probability, 5 minutes of reading in the hopes of finding an actual hack that was unexpected.

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Re:How to Hack the Lottery (from a 2600 Magazine article pub... by Mz on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @07:07PM (#2168151)

I read something once where someone (I think some business) made every effort to buy all lottery tickets for a particular payout once the payout amount went high enough to make that a viable (profitable) option. It turned out they actually failed to get every single ticket for some reason, but I think they did get the winning ticket.

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Re:How to Hack the Lottery (from a 2600 Magazine article pub... by Mankhool on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @07:31PM (#2168235)

That is a dangerous thing to do. If there is more than one winning ticket you lose.

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Re:How to Hack the Lottery (from a 2600 Magazine article pub... by Mz on Tuesday February 01, 2011 @07:32PM (#2168240)

Yup.

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