Statistician figures out how to beat scratch lottery tickets. Feb. 4, 2011— -- Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician living in Toronto, was working in his office in June 2003, waiting ...

The apparent randomness of the scratch ticket was just a facade, a mathematical lie. And this meant that the lottery system might actually be solvable, just like those mining samples.

The Michigan Lottery revealed that a 50-year-old man from Wayne County won $4 million from a scratch-off ticket The winner has decided to take home his prize right away as a one-time lump sum ...

Host Scott Simon speaks to Mohan Srivastava, a statistician in Toronto, about how he used pattern recognition to figure out which scratch-off lottery tickets were winners or losers.

A Virginia woman has struck gold twice in her lifetime! Gloucester resident Oletha Etheridge recently won a $1 million prize from the Virginia Lottery’s $100,000 a Year scratch-off ticket game.

An Ohio Lottery scratch-off ticket purchased in Stark County hit big. A player in the East Rochester area won $50,000 playing the $30 Monopoly 200X scratch-off, the lottery announced June 27.

An Upstate woman won $200,000 on a scratch-off ticket at a Greer, South Carolina, convenience store. “I was completely shocked,” she told South Carolina Education Lottery officials. Sign up ...

A couple beat the odds when they scratched off the top prize on a $50 lottery ticket purchased in Canton.