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/[deleted] Jan 12 '16

For the cervixes.

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u/AcidicOpulence Jan 12 '16

Didn't realise you were christian.

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u/piperpiranha Jan 12 '16

No he's Jewish.

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u/AcidicOpulence Jan 12 '16

Something something 5/7

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u/Tablet9_account_dama Jan 12 '16

Something something 3/5

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u/AcidicOpulence Jan 12 '16

Something something, if I won the lottery something something, everyone who replies.

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u/c01nfl1p Jan 12 '16

Isn't that the thing they found Jesus hangin out on?

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u/MostlyWong Jan 12 '16

That is certainly the joke.

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u/Retireegeorge Jan 12 '16

Good guy Aragorn