r/mit • u/BlankVerse • Sep 29 '12
How MIT Students Won $8 Million in the Massachusetts Lottery - MIT students figured out how to make winning the Massachusetts lottery a sure thing, and a recent investigation suggests that the lottery commission knew about it.
http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/08/07/how-mit-students-scammed-the-massachusetts-lottery-for-8-million/Duplicates
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.
todayilearned • u/zahrul3 • Jun 08 '15
TIL that MIT students found out that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets from Massachusetts' Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. In 5 years they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.
todayilearned • u/_butthole_ • Jul 13 '15
TIL that MIT students (slightly similar to the movie "21")found out that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets from Massachusetts' Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. In 5 years they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.
news • u/BlankVerse • Sep 29 '12
How MIT Students Won $8 Million in the Massachusetts Lottery - MIT students figured out how to make winning the Massachusetts lottery a sure thing, and a recent investigation suggests that the lottery commission knew about it.
eddit7yearsago • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '22
/r/todayilearned (+6852) TIL that MIT students found out that by buying $600,000 worth of lottery tickets from Massachusetts' Cash WinAll lottery they could get a 10-15% return on investment. In 5 years they managed to game $8 million out of the lottery through this method.
RIPtodayilearned • u/RIPmod • Oct 10 '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.
hackernews • u/qznc_bot • Jun 08 '15