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The Real Flaw with Scratch Lottery Cards
Posted by Mike on February 6, 2011
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Wired has a fascinating article about a statistician who figured how to beat the odds on the scratch-off lottery tickets–that is, pick cards that are more likely to produce winning combinations. And “more likely”, I mean getting it right up to 95 percent of the time. But the article mentions only in passing the real…