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.

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.

COLUMBUS − A customer of Walmart in Zanesville is over the moon after winning a $150,000 top prize in the Ohio Lottery’s $5 Invaders from the Planet Moohlah scratch-off ticket. The winner will ...

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 ...

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 ...

An Illinois Lottery player won the $777,777 jackpot on a scratch-off ticket at a BP gas statin on Chicago's South side.

Gloucester resident Oletha Etheridge recently won a $1 million prize in the Virginia Lottery’s $100,000 a Year scratch-off ticket game. Most people would consider such a windfall to be a once-in ...

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.

According to the Pennsylvania Lottery, a retailer in Lackawanna County sold a $1 million-winning All Cash Scratch-Off. All Cash is a $20 game that offers top prizes of $1 million.