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.

Colorado Lottery code example (Credit: Colorado Lottery) The Colorado Lottery said there are winning codes associated with certain prize amounts on scratch tickets. Here is a look at some of the ...

A Shelby County man won big after choosing to buy a scratch-off ticket, which he said he normally doesn't do.

A Maryland man won $30,000 on a scratch-off ticket that he received as a "random" gift from his nephew, according to lottery officials.

While lottery players chased the billion-dollar Powerball jackpot, a Bergen County lottery player won $1 million playing a ...