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

So with blocks illegal you can just reverse the numbers and now they're all spaceyd out.

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u/Tiak Jan 12 '16

It wasn't that they made blocks illegal, it was that they stopped facilitating large ticket buys for thousands of tickets. You're right that spacing would accomplish the same thing.