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Cracking the Scratch Lottery CodeAnother great true life story of someone who saw a flaw in a gambling game and how they figured it out and exploited it. God I love these kinds of articles. Srivastava realized that the same logic could be applied to the lottery. The apparent randomness of the scratch ticket was just a facade, a mathematical lie. And this meant that the lottery system might actually be solvable, just like those mining samples. “At the time, I had no intention of cracking the tickets,” he says. He was just curious about the algorithm that produced the numbers. Walking back from the gas station with the chips and coffee he’d bought with his winnings, he turned the problem over in his mind. By the time he reached the office, he was confident that he knew how the software might work, how it could precisely control the number of winners while still appearing random... http://www.wired.com.../2011/01/ff_lottery/ |
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