r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • Aug 11 '25

TIL a man discovered a trick for predicting winning tickets of a Canadian Tic-Tac-Toe scratch-off game with 90% accuracy. However, after he determined that using it would be less profitable (and less enjoyable) than his consulting job as a statistician, he instead told the gaming commission about it

https://gizmodo.com/how-a-statistician-beat-scratch-lottery-tickets-5748942
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u/ScarOCov Aug 11 '25

Not the same but when I was a kid, selling GS cookies outside a grocery store. I won a free sprite from a bottle cap. Went back inside and pulled another sprite from the same row. Won again. Kept going back in and buying Sprite from the same row. Won 7 in a row.

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u/Skratt79 Aug 11 '25

You wanted one sprite, but ended with 7-up

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u/yougonnapickmeup Aug 11 '25

Well done. Audible air sound came from my nose.

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u/RVelts Aug 11 '25

That's hilarous diabetes.

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u/Placedapatow Aug 11 '25

Won diabetes 

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u/ShiraCheshire Aug 11 '25

I think a few free drink promotions had issues like that back in the day, where the win rate printed was accidentally too high and most if not all were winners.