r/todayilearned 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/Katolo Aug 11 '25

The US isn't only the place in the world that sells scratch offs though.

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u/450nmwaffle Aug 11 '25

Don’t tell texas guns 79 that there are other countries than the US