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That incident was quickly referenced in the article.

“One would have to be brain-dead not to notice that the avalanche [in sales] had begun in the days leading up to the August 16th draw,’’ said Mohan Srivastava, a Canadian statistician who gained fame in gambling circles when he found a flaw in a Canadian instant game, allowing him to accurately pick winning tickets 90 percent of the time.