Tim Totten on Nostr: Well this is annoying. I expect there will be some interesting media coverage on this ...
Well this is annoying. I expect there will be some interesting media coverage on this soon. (Remember, you heard it here first!)
A friend of mine figured out a guaranteed way to PRINT MONEY during the Virginia Lottery's Friday Keno Bonus promotion. The lottery was dumb enough to offer a 4.5:1 payout on a bet that has 4:1 odds. By playing all 80 keno numbers, anyone could simply print $90 for every $80 spent. Put the max $10 on every bet and you get $900 for your $800 investment. Do that as many times as possible during the promotion, and the numbers start to add up.
So my friend punished the lottery officials' lack of math skills by making a no-risk SIX-FIGURE SCORE courtesy of the Commonwealth of Virginia in a two-hour window last Friday. The score this week probably would have been well into seven figures (after applying some force multipliers), but the lottery officials hastily canceled their dumb promotion.
Don't play the lottery, kids. That is, unless you can find a deal this good to beat the system. And if you're a resident of Virginia, you might want to investigate the math skills of your lottery officials.
A friend of mine figured out a guaranteed way to PRINT MONEY during the Virginia Lottery's Friday Keno Bonus promotion. The lottery was dumb enough to offer a 4.5:1 payout on a bet that has 4:1 odds. By playing all 80 keno numbers, anyone could simply print $90 for every $80 spent. Put the max $10 on every bet and you get $900 for your $800 investment. Do that as many times as possible during the promotion, and the numbers start to add up.
So my friend punished the lottery officials' lack of math skills by making a no-risk SIX-FIGURE SCORE courtesy of the Commonwealth of Virginia in a two-hour window last Friday. The score this week probably would have been well into seven figures (after applying some force multipliers), but the lottery officials hastily canceled their dumb promotion.
Don't play the lottery, kids. That is, unless you can find a deal this good to beat the system. And if you're a resident of Virginia, you might want to investigate the math skills of your lottery officials.