Woman who won lottery 4 times was Stanford Statistics PHD

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8 pointsvegasbrianc2 comments

This woman almost certainly attacked the system the same way a statistician from MIT did attack another series of tickets, earlier this year: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1

I say: well played, she deserves to keep the money. That will teach the makers of the lottery tickets to be more careful.

If she outwitted a bad algorithm: more power to her.

If she had a co-conspirator who helped direct her (and/or her preferred mini-mart retailer) the tickets, lock them both up (even if deducing which tickets to redirect was on its own a legitimate tactic).

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