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Nine People Who Beat the Lottery (and Eight Who Got Caught)

Nobody cracked the draw. They cracked the printing, the software, the shop counter, and in one case the rules of arithmetic.

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Here is the thing that connects every story in this article: not one of them predicted a random draw. It cannot be done, and the people in here were mostly clever enough to know it.

What they did instead was attack everything around the draw — the printing plant, the software that generated the numbers, the person behind the counter, the rules of a rollover that had not been checked with a calculator. Which is a useful thing to understand, because it is also the list of places any prize game can go wrong.

9 entries, one per page.