Maybe a more sophisticated modern numbers game with lottery insiders colluding with 'winners'? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game
Improbably Frequent Lottery Winners
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#82Has anyone considered some of these people might be psychic? Professor Daryl Bem's published study "Feeling the Future" comes to mind.
Psychics do exist and some of them don't even know they have this ability.
I have a friend whose Father is always winning at the race track. I asked him did he have some system and he says he just feels it. He could have psychic ability and not even know it like some lottery players might have.
Science also tells us that the future can influence the past. Like Einstein said the distinctions between past, present and future is just a persistent illusion.
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#83Persistence might be key? Some people may be addicted to gambling with lottery tickets, or may just buy more than others in the same area. I remember once early in my IT career, I was doing work for the local government agency that was responsible for issuing all the 'scratch the ticket and find 3 matching symbols' lottery games in our state. They used to sell the tickets at the front counter of the agency office as…
I wondered if this had either inspired, or was inspired by, Lazlo in the movie Real Genius.
Apparently, Lazlo's scheme was actually based on one by a group at CalTech.
https://filmschoolrejects.com/5-brilliant-things-you-should-...
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#84A possible rationnal explanation :
In France some scratchcard are sold to merchants in packages containing a proportional number of winning cards. For example, on a lot of 100 cards, sixty are null, 20 allows you to earn five euros, 10 allows you to earn ten euros ...
So the cheat is easy for a merchant (or his complices) : he just needs scratching each cards of a packages until find the maximum earnings. The others cards are sold to customers.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2008/11/26/01016-200...
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#85Of course there are ways to beat the lottery. For one, ask the clerk which ticket to buy. They will gladly give you the one most people win from.
Also you can study the patterns. If you buy the same ticket over and over, a streak of losing is a good idea that something big is coming (uneven distribution of the odds). Most people at this point would give up and buy a different ticket, but that's a bad strategy. A streak of winning small amounts is actually bad (proper distribution of the odds). With a little social engineering (small talks with other customers), you can gather that intelligence. Evidence of this effect: the powerball, mega millions, etc. When no one wins they balloon. When someone wins each time, they win relatively small amounts.
Another mistake people make is buying different tickets instead of the same. That's why only a few people win.
So much of lottery is reverse psychology.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah? Where would one find genuine winners? It's not like there's an open market for this, and since winners are random people they are unlikely to be aware of black markets. Paying them a premium is obvious.
I'm not too sure about people who are winning scratchies or state lotteries, but there is a fairly well-regulated black market among high-stakes gamblers for losing horse-racing (etc.) tickets. You use them to lay off other winnings so that you don't pay tax. I imagine people looking to wash money also have a market for winning tickets. It's kind of perverse that Americans pay taxes on gambling AT ALL. The rake is al…
Yeah it’s double dipping. In the U.K. before they abolished taxes on gambling you has the choice at least. Pay the tax on the stake or the take.
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#87Of course there are ways to beat the lottery. For one, ask the clerk which ticket to buy. They will gladly give you the one most people win from. Also you can study the patterns. If you buy the same ticket over and over, a streak of losing is a good idea that something big is coming (uneven distribution of the odds). Most people at this point would give up and buy a different ticket, but that's a bad strategy. A stre…
No, not reverse psychology just you seeking and seeing patterns where there are none.
There isn’t a strategy you can use as an individual unless you can throw tens of millions at it to exploit basly designed games like the MIT guys did.
Your sad head shaking at those falling for reverse psychology is ironic.
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#88Of course there are ways to beat the lottery. For one, ask the clerk which ticket to buy. They will gladly give you the one most people win from. Also you can study the patterns. If you buy the same ticket over and over, a streak of losing is a good idea that something big is coming (uneven distribution of the odds). Most people at this point would give up and buy a different ticket, but that's a bad strategy. A stre…
No, not reverse psychology just you seeking and seeing patterns where there are none. There isn’t a strategy you can use as an individual unless you can throw tens of millions at it to exploit basly designed games like the MIT guys did. Your sad head shaking at those falling for reverse psychology is ironic.
Are you saying the evidence I provide is wrong? You seriously believe the lottery is perfectly designed? That's like saying cars/airbags/computers/etc. are always perfectly designed.
I found this example: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183070/MIT-maths-ge...
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
The mundane explanations doesn't answer anything. It's just pure speculation. They didn't eben talk to the guy who had the most frequent wins. Why wouldn't psychics get caught?
Ever hear of Occam's Razor? We have two broad options, a small set of people who are psychic, have kept it secret for the entire history of humanity, and use it to win the lottery but in almost no other context that we know of or have recognized. The other option is that these frequent winners are surrogates for others who can or would not hand in their lottery ticket on their own. What follows the razor?
Occam's Razor doesn't make the simplest explanation automatically correct. Occam's Razor means you test the simplest hypothesis first.
While I doubt it's psychics, if I were to assert that as fact I'd have to disprove that hypothesis.
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#90Years ago I had a friend who's father made a living smuggling cigarettes (and probably other stuff) from Northern Africa to Gibraltar. He laundered his income by buying winning lottery tickets.
Where would one find sellers of winning lottery tickets? You must either be a store clerk or wait outside for people to cash them in?
I remember reading about Puerto Rican mafia bosses doing this to show an explanation for how they could afford their lifestyles. It was either known in the community that winners could be sold for cash or they'd have a deal with the stores selling the tickets. Some tickets win big right away and others are brought back to the store for confirmation.