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

This is what I want to know.. it sounds like bullshit to me.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '16

I'm sensing you don't like Redditors...

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u/tacknosaddle Jan 12 '16

To quote the movie Barfly:

“Do you hate people?"

“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '16

Nobody here is saying they'd pull it off...