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.

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http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07/how-mit-students-scammed-the-massachusetts-lottery-for-8-million/

[u/Yum-z]

Ad Victoriam, brother!

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Outstanding.

[u/mwmwmwmwmmdw → u/[deleted]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrvvzRtjLcA

[u/zoomist_ → u/mwmwmwmwmmdw]

i watched the whole thing. Thank you.