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 ...

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

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.