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by joshmlewis 5193 days ago
Well, there's definitely some that aren't perfect. But how many and which? That's for guys like you to find out.

There are professional "cashers" that have figured out how to hack a small percentile of games in MA. They take advantage of a few things, but if you have $100k you are guaranteed to make a profit. Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/07/broken-lotteries/

Now this guy is a trained statistician from MIT and Stanford and has put math behind it. He figured out the tic tac toe game. Source: http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/01/ff_lottery/all/1

So as you can see all games aren't entirely fool proof. Good luck!

1 comments

I remember reading the second wired article in print. I highly recommend it — interesting story, good writing.