[ExI] How could this former math professor find an edge in playing the lottery???

[John Grigg]

Yes, the next one in the queue is sold to you by the clerk.  I have
only seen the low win "rippies" available in big jars where you use
your "psi" to pick yourself a lucky one. lol

All of the woman's wins were in million dollar multiples.

>From the article:
On a $50 scratch-off ticket bought in this rural farming community,
Ginther won $10 million last month in her biggest windfall yet. But it
was the fourth winning ticket in Texas for the 63-year-old former
college professor since 1993, when Ginther split an $11 million
jackpot and became the most famous native in Bishop history.

But she's a celebrity who few in this town of 3,300 people can say much about.

"That lady is pretty much scarce to everybody," said Lucas Ray Cruz,
Ginther's former neighbor. "That's just the way she is."

At the Times Market where Ginther bought her last two winning tickets,
the highway gas station is fast becoming a pilgrimage for unlucky
lottery losers. Lines stretch deep past a $5.98 bin of Mexican movie
DVDs, and a woman from

Rhode Island called last week asking to buy tickets from the charmed
store through the mail.

She was told that was illegal. The woman called back to plead again anyway.

The Texas Lottery Commission has seen repeat winners before, but none
on the scale of Ginther. Spokesman Bobby Heith said the agency has
never investigated Ginther's winnings — three scratch-off tickets and
one lottery draw — for possible fraud but described the verification
system as thorough. Her other winnings — both from scratch-off tickets
— were $2 million in 2006 and $3 million in 2008.
>>>

John


On 7/14/10, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> On 7/14/2010 4:31 PM, John Grigg wrote:
>
>> She must have figured
>> something out to give herself a very significant edge...  Applied
>> mathematics?
>
> How can you "figure out" which winning scratch ticket to buy in the same
> store at different times? Aren't you given the next one in the queue?
>
> I didn't read the press story closely, but I thought it possible that at
> least one of the wins might have been minor. Or were they all top
> $million+ prizes?
>
> Damien Broderick
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