Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish • 5 months ago

Someone Spent $25 Million on Lottery Tickets to Guarantee a Win. And It Worked.

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Someone Spent $25 Million on Lottery Tickets to Guarantee a Win. And It Worked.

Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'@real.lemmy.fanEnglish • 5 months ago

A New Jersey company called Rook TX exploited lax regulations to buy millions of lottery tickets, winning a $95 million jackpot and prompting Texas Lottery Commission reforms.

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stefan mandel won a bunch of jackpots in australia and the us during the 1970s and 80s doing the same thing, buying all the numbers.

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