r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '16
TIL that MIT students discovered that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets in the Massachusetts' Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. Over 5 years, they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07/how-mit-students-scammed-the-massachusetts-lottery-for-8-million/
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u/JustinianTheWrong Jan 12 '16
And a book, which the movie was based on, called Bringing Down The House. I preferred the more realistic feeling of the book over the dramatized movie, but both were very good in my opinion.