{"id":5409,"date":"2019-01-29T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=5409"},"modified":"2019-01-29T12:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:04:59","slug":"how-a-retired-couple-found-lottery-odds-in-their-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/how-a-retired-couple-found-lottery-odds-in-their-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"How a retired couple found lottery odds in their favor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this story about a retired couple exploiting a rule in a state-run lottery game to make millions of dollars.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jerry Selbee: Here&#8217;s what I said. I said if I played $1,100 mathematically I&#8217;d have one 4-number winner, that&#8217;s 1,000 bucks. \u00a0I divided 1,100 by six instead of 57 because I did a mental quick dirty and I come up with 18. So I knew I&#8217;d have either 18 or 19 3-number winners and that&#8217;s 50 bucks each. At 18 I got $1,000 for a 4-number winner, and I got 18 3-number winners worth $50 each, so that&#8217;s 900 bucks. So I got $1,100 invested and I&#8217;ve got a $1,900 return.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"cbsNewsVideo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/jerry-and-marge-selbee-how-a-retired-couple-won-millions-using-a-lottery-loophole-60-minutes\/\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/jerry-and-marge-selbee-how-a-retired-couple-won-millions-using-a-lottery-loophole-60-minutes\/\">60 Minutes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this story about a retired couple exploiting a rule in a state-run lottery game to make millions of dollars. Jerry Selbee: Here&#8217;s what I said. I said if I played $1,100 mathematically I&#8217;d have one 4-number winner, that&#8217;s 1,000 bucks. \u00a0I divided 1,100 by six instead of 57 because I did a mental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[286],"tags":[1320,1318,1319],"class_list":["post-5409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shared","tag-loophole","tag-lottery","tag-math"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5411,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5409\/revisions\/5411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}