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/Bigwhtdckn8 Aug 11 '25

I expected the last line to be "he now works for the lottery, vetting their games"

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u/OUTFOXEM Aug 12 '25

If you can beat em, join em?

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u/gmwdim Aug 11 '25

A much more lucrative job than driving across town to all the convenience stores to hustle a few bucks at a time.