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Cracking the scratch-off lottery ticket code. -- (link)

Posted by mara Feb 16 '11, 12:35

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The package was sent at 10 am. Two hours later, he received a call from Zufelt. Srivastava had correctly predicted 19 out of the 20 tickets. The next day, the tic-tac-toe game was pulled from stores. (www.wired.com)

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I read that story last month, but what I don't get is: you don't get to pick which tickets you want. - JaxSean Feb 16, 12:37 3
- yeah but a store clerk figuring out which one is worth $5,000 hell, be easy enough to separate -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 16, 12:42
- But you get to pick which spaces you scratch off. -- nm - mara Feb 16, 12:40 1
  - Yeah, but you scratch off every space on those tickets. It's not a "scratch off three blocks to see if you have a tic-tac-toe" (at least, that's how - JaxSean Feb 16, 12:45
Dan Brown, check it out -- nm - moles Feb 16, 12:36

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