Wacky plan from Harvard math guy guarantees you'll win a billion-dollar Mega Millions jackpot
A statistician from Harvard University claims to have developed a foolproof strategy to win a future billion-dollar Mega Millions jackpot.
Following a $1.33 billion Mega Millions jackpot on July 29 last year, plenty of hopeful players were curious about how they could win a massive prize like this.
And Professor Mark Glickman says he has discovered the winning formula in this video featured on WCVB Channel 5 Boston.
However, Professor Glickman says his theory will cost you over $605 million dollars upfront. And there are a few other problems to overcome too.
For example, if others followed the same plan, you would share the jackpot with them, reducing your win to a considerable loss.
Professor Glickman has the answer to that as well. Watch his well-thought-out plan in the video and see if you agree.
MORE WINNERS
Many other players and experts have tried to beat the lottery odds, and some succeeded.
Here are a few of the successes:
STEFAN’S $27 MILLION WIN
One of the most successful strategies to win the lottery was developed by a Romanian accountant and math expert.
Stefan Mandel played an astonishing 7 million tickets in a single lottery game and won over $27 million in his lifetime. However, not everything turned out as he planned as you’ll see in the video below.
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MIT STUDENTS $8 MILLION
For six years, a researcher together with a group of Boston MIT school maths geniuses found ways to get prizes of a total of $8 million.
They found their winning strategy with the now-closed Cash Winfall lottery.
And the game’s owner, the Massachusetts Lottery, knew they were doing it.
It began in January 2005, when MIT senior James M. Harvey was looking for a senior independent study project.
He came across the Massachusetts Cash WinFall, and it took him only a few days to realize the winning potential contained within Cash WinFall's loophole.
Watch the videos for more detail.
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THE SELBEES $26 MILLION
Another successful Cash WinFall prize winner was Jerry Selbee.
Together with his wife Marge, he managed to win over $26 million from the same Cash Winfall game.
Their small-town retirement life changed one day in 2003 when Jerry discovered a new Michigan Lottery game called Winfall, since closed.
Jerry, 81, the holder of a bachelor's degree in math from the nearby Western Michigan University, discovered a loophole in only a matter of minutes.
He realized that this was a unique game and the rest is history.
Their homegrown company, G.S. Investment Strategies won more than $26 million from nine years of playing this lottery.
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