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05/11/2004: I don't know...
how impressed I should be. On the one hand, we had the Georgia resident who won two-thirds of a multimillion dollar lottery jackpot by the simple expedient of managing to buy two winning tickets in the same bunch of "quick pick" lottery tickets. Now we have a report of a Michigan man who's won two $1 million instant win "scratch off" tickets in the past two years. The Michigan lottery official is weaseling out on us by saying that they simply haven't calculated the odds against someone winning the big prize twice in two years, but my intuition is telling me that getting two jackpot winning lotto tickets in the same batch is probably more unlikely.
Len on 05.11.04 @ 04:29 PM CST
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on Wednesday, May 12th, 2004 at 12:13 AM CST, bryan@dumka.com">Bryan said
I'm with you on the quick-picks unless they have a really simple random number generator.
The guy in Michigan has probably really upped the number of tickets he buys after winning the first one.