How To Win The Lottery (By Cheating)

right and that's 50 pounds worth of lottery tickets purchased and luckily it all gets drawn tonight so we'll find out the results of whether i manage to win money in just a few moments some legends are born some are made some legends however forge themselves by spending hours next to lottery ticket machines printing thousands and thousands of lottery tickets with a burning passion into their heart and a desire for profit today we learn from this legend ladies and gentlemen that's right we've got one heck of a video today as we're going to discover how to always win the lottery you see you might think this system is perfectly balanced with no room for exploits whatsoever but what if i told you there were many ways to guarantee effectively endless money so without further ado we're gonna dive into this video so make sure you sat back relaxed you have a nice warm cup of yorkshire tea in hand and if you're feeling especially fantastic then you can even like the video now let's begin lotteries provide a chance for the average joe to make mega millions simply by buying a ticket it's a game of pure chance which can instantly turn rum and eating retrobates into caviar crunching cortisones there's just one problem for every one caviar cruncher there's about a hundred million financially destitute individuals who have absolutely nothing to show for it but what if i told you lotteries weren't actually a game of chance what if i told you that with the right skills and knowledge the lottery doesn't just become a game that you can exploit and beat it becomes a totally broken system that guarantees a hefty payout every single time dozens of people over the years have found loopholes to cheese their way to fortunes large and small and today we're here not to only just celebrate them but to learn from them and of course to make sure we avoid their mistakes you see that's the spiffing bread guarantee we can exploit anything and everything so let's begin with a humble tale meet jerry and meet marge owners of a corner shop store in the tiny town of evart michigan like most tiny shops in america these guys sold lottery tickets in fact whilst they could also sell beer and cigarettes and all of that other good stuff it was the lottery machine that was their real profit maker as it was interestingly the only place to buy lottery tickets in the entirety of the town but suddenly when a new kind of lottery became available in town jerry saw an opportunity to make even more money enter windfall a very simple one dollar lottery ran by the michigan lottery here's how it worked you picked six numbers one through 49 and then the michigan lottery drew six numbers at the end of the week if you got six complete correct guesses then congratulations you won the jackpot guaranteed to be at least two million dollars if you guessed five four or three of the six numbers you would win but of course a much smaller amount now these small amounts are where the real money was found to be particularly in the event of a roll down which was one of this lottery's many unique gimmicks a roll down occurred if nobody managed to win the jackpot for a while and the jackpot managed to climb above an astronomical five million dollars and as long as there was no six number winner remembering the odds of this were incredibly slim then the entire jackpot amount flowed down to the lesser tears of winners so suddenly the five dollar prize for matching free numbers correctly became fifty dollars the prize for matching four numbers correctly became one thousand dollars instead of one hundred dollars and the prize for matching five numbers jumped up from 2500 to five thousand dollars now here's where the lottery devs evidently could have done a little bit more qa testing because despite the fact that the prize money in the total pool had effectively jumped up ten times the bar to enter was still only one dollar and crucially the odds of matching the numbers has remained exactly the same you're still picking six numbers from one to forty nine and remember just buying one ticket essentially enters you into all of these different odds at once there's the chance of getting three numbers correct of getting four numbers correct of getting five numbers correct sure of course most tickets would have no matching numbers but if you had enough tickets then enough of them would have three matching numbers or four matching numbers or even five matching numbers to massively offset the amount that you've spent on getting each individual ticket from a simplified perspective it basically meant that each one dollar ticket would provided you bought enough of them on average return one dollar and twenty cents now a twenty cent return doesn't sound like a lot but what if you were to buy a lot of tickets and at this point it is just a law of averages meaning you are almost guaranteed a twenty percent gain on your investment almost immediately you know what ladies and gentlemen all these talks of odds and winning the lottery have got me thinking what are my odds of actually winning the national lottery in my country well in fact we might even be able to win the euro millions which is a lottery for the entirety of europe now of course this must be an absolute walk in the park ladies and gentlemen i mean it's on tv all the time so the odds must be easy ah right so we have a 139 million odds of winning the jackpot which by that point i probably have better odds running for prime minister and actually getting it than i do of winning the lottery but then again i am a smug british bastard and i'm incredibly lucky so let's enter with my lucky numbers of six nine four and then twenty that's right it's 69 420 and then final lucky star numbers of six nine it's the perfect lottery pick oh god i'm gonna win nothing anyway my intention is to buy exactly 25 pounds worth of euro million lottery tickets with just randomly generated numbers because let's be real your own personal numbers have just as much a chance of winning as random lucky numbers i do also love how horrifically predatory this entire website is like legitimately it's a nightmare land like everything is advertised as a dream coming true and that's right all of your happiness can be fulfilled if you only give us 25 pounds so that you ever wanted 131 million odds of actually having those dreams come true but there we go that's 25 pounds worth of euro million tickets actually purchased next up we have to get something with slightly better odds say hello to the thunderball game now this only has a one in eight million odds of actually giving us 500 000 which is actually much better we even have a one in six hundred thousand chance of getting five grand of course that's not going to happen at all but hey we're gonna do it anyway because the tickets are also cheaper but still they are completely negligent the statistical probability of us being able to even cover the 50 pounds i've had to spend here is pretty much one in a million in itself but nonetheless i'm a british bugger and if i know anything about being british it's that we're naturally more lucky than everyone else and that means that even though i don't believe in luck i do believe in my own stupidity right and that's 50 pounds worth of lottery tickets purchased and luckily it all gets drawn tonight so we'll find out the results of whether i managed to win money in just a few moments it's time to get back to breaking the lottery now the first time jerry played after he noticed this he bought two thousand two hundred tickets which of course cost him two thousand two hundred dollars he had a good handful of three and four matching numbers but of course no five matching numbers and his winnings added up to two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars so that's a 50 loss oh no jerry what an absolute disaster but jerry was undeterred because he of course understood average odds and expected returns for example it's time to get a little bit messy if you roll a dice six times you're probably going to get a weird mess of numbers despite it technically being a one in six chance for each one you might get a couple twos heck you might roll three six times that's not an even spread but if you roll that dice six thousand times then you're probably going to get a much more even spread roll it sixty thousand times and the results will be remarkably close to the statistical one in six probability of each this applied to jerry's model two his mathematical prediction in his first attempt wasn't wrong he was simply thinking too small the more he played and the more tickets he owned the more certain his odds would become so the next time he played he spent three thousand four hundred dollars on tickets and this time jerry won six thousand three hundred dollars well then jerry that's an eighty percent gain that's very nice the next time this came around he bought eight thousand dollars worth of tickets and won fifteen thousand seven hundred dollars that's almost a doubling in returns that's an even better job jerry now we're actually getting somewhere so things are going swell for marge and jerry the only thing that could knock them off their winning streak was if someone managed to win that six-figure jackpot cancelling out the rolldown winnings whilst it was definitely not exactly likely to happen it could and in situations where it would you'd pretty much lose almost all of your original investment and oh no it looks like this did actually happen to them once and it was when jerry even convinced his kids to go all in ah bad job jerry i don't think they're going to be coming over for thanksgiving but eventually to command even greater volumes of money in organizing his playing jerry actually founded a company called gs investment strategies llc now that's a bloody mouthful so i think for simplicity's sake we're gonna call it jericho now jerry sold shares in his own company at 500 a piece so that he could generate money to buy tickets and he ran his lottery winning strategy like a business remember jerry technically here even though he set up a company was doing nothing illegal there's nothing criminal about buying lots and lots of lottery tickets with each new rolldown occurring jericho made forty thousand dollars in profit then it made eighty thousand dollars in profit then suddenly it was making a hundred and twenty thousand dollars in profit with money now flowing up and down the town jerry thought he and his investors of jericho would now be set for life unfortunately for him the michigan lottery would shut the game down in may 2005 citing low ticket sales which probably meant that they were not making anywhere near as much money as they wanted and heck it was probably jerry stealing a huge amount of cash from them as well so despite making vast fortunes in just a matter of months it looked like he'd sadly have to return to selling beer and cigarettes again forever until he received a tip from out of state and his lottery playing life would go into a whole new direction one day jerry's phone rang he was informed by a previous investor of jericho that a brand new kind of lottery has opened a few states over in massachusetts say hello to cash windfall it was very similar to the michigan windfall with a few changes tickets have doubled they now cost two dollars each but you picked six numbers from 1 to 46 instead of 1 to 49 and the jackpot rolled down when it hit 2 million not 5 million so there was still fantastically huge amounts of money to be won so all that master exploiter jerry and his wife marge needed to do was regularly make a 700 mile round trip through canada to buy the tickets oh god jerry why but how did jerry and marge even stay awake on their 700 mile trip well they use the spiffco xlt mug that's right it's huge it's big and you can even slap the roof of it and see just how much tea you can fit in this bad boy jerry didn't know there was another group much closer to the home of the lottery with even more youth more energy and more pep than the 67 year old convenience store owners you see at mit where some of the greatest minds mingled a student named james harvey had also worked out that buying a two dollar lottery ticket would essentially net you two dollars and forty cents if you played it enough times so he and a group of friends convinced 50 people to cough up twenty dollars each for a total of one thousand dollars and they all bought a huge amount of tickets on their first game they won three thousand dollars making a tidy two thousand dollars profit with this success james partnered with electrical engineering student yuran glue to help amass even more players some of whom of course at mit were fantastically well funded nepotism in the end they set up a company james created random strategies llc and these bad boys were buying six hundred thousand dollars worth of tickets every single roll down not only did they have far more resources than jerry and marge they also had more time over at jericho they got themselves a computer to pick numbers at random for him the mit students however picked them by hand this was a way to ensure that there were absolutely no duplications in the hundreds of thousands of tickets they were purchasing this naturally increased their profit margins even further this took them weeks to do but if there's one thing we know about students it's that there's nothing they won't do for something that's free especially if it's literally free money interestingly this wasn't the only university based shenanigans going on elsewhere a medical researcher called david zhang over at boston university noticed the same exploit and immediately he founded the dr zhang lottery club limited partnership ah now this bad boy was buying between three hundred thousand and five hundred thousand tickets in every roll down two but still jerry and marge were making their 12-hour trip every roll down to buy increasingly larger quantities of tickets their biggest wager was buying 360 000 tickets netting them almost 1 million dollars of winnings at a cost of 720 000 a cool quarter million dollars of profit is certainly impressive but then a new exploit was found the entire premise of this lottery exploit hinges on the fact that the lottery climbs to over 2 million so that a roll down can occur this boosts the value of the prizes at all of the lower tiers which is what we're actually aiming to win but impatient and money hungry mit students thought well why wait why hope for a roll down to happen when i can create one myself so days before the next draw when the jackpot sat at 1.6 million they bought an astonishing 700 000 lottery tickets over three days spending a total of 1.4 million dollars the rolldown was triggered by them buying so many tickets in such a short space of time but as it was too close to the draw of the lottery to let all the players know neither jericho or david zhang had any idea that a rolldown was happening and so they didn't buy any tickets meaning the mit team alone was able to take 2.1 million dollars home a whopping 700 000 in pure profit so ladies and gentlemen it's that secondary moment you've all been waiting for as we discover just how much money i won on the national lottery because you know i'm incredibly lucky and despite the fact that it was a 1 in 136 million odds that i'd actually be able to win the jackpot ladies and gentlemen i can declare i did not win the jackpot at all no i won uh 10 pounds and 60 pence meaning i lost 40 pounds wow that's like an entire weekly shop down the drain and i feel completely void on the inside yay but don't worry ladies and gentlemen remember even though i lost 40 pounds all i had to do was dream big and play small if only i just dreamed bigger and desired to win harder so that i would then gamble more then i would have been able to win um as it's all about dreaming so oh god ladies and gentlemen don't play the national lottery don't play any national lottery your odds of winning are ridiculously small instead find dodgy international lotteries where your odds of winning when the game reaches a quadruple rollover might actually be above 0.001 then you never know well let's get back to the people who managed to do this a fair bit better than i by mid-2011 enough people had been exposed to the story that journalists were starting to poke around and in july of that year the boston globe published their reporting complete with interviews from jerry who was now disgruntled with the mit students for effectively knocking him out the game so yes he was a little bit of a salty man with the publishing of that article a public outcry began how could big investors like jerry and mit students and david zhang take away money from the literal lottery players governors around the states condemned their actions and dozens of outlets ran the story the massachusetts inspector general even started an investigation against them cash windfalls and jericho's reputation had been dragged through the mud and at this point it seemed clear who the real villains were then months passed and the inquiry found that there was really nothing that wrong with the whole operation at least not with jerry and marge as we've always said there's nothing illegal about buying lots and lots of lottery tickets and jerry and company weren't taking away money from smaller players cash windfall's lottery didn't work like that the big players had not crowded the small players out of the game or reduced their chances of winning every ticket still had the same chance of winning so jerry was actually being perfectly morally neutral as the report specifically stated that was indeed perfectly balanced to quote it no one's odds of having a winning ticket were affected by high volume betting when the jackpot hit the rolldown threshold cash windfall became a good bet for everyone not just the high volume betters it was only the mit students who would secretly and deliberately force a rolldown which cut out smaller less informed players from potential winnings this was bad it's not good it's not fair so bad job mit students but in fact the simple strategy of buying hundreds of thousands of tickets and guaranteeing a return uh maybe it was good having spent 40 million dollars on lottery tickets 16 million of that actually went to the state in taxes the full report is actually available to read it's quite fascinating i've put it down in the description and it details all the different tricks jerry and the others used so ultimately the states benefited in a huge amount of taxes the little man whether he knew it or not probably benefited from increased odds of returns and jerry and all of those around him managed to become fabulously wealthy ultimately after all the publicity cash winfall lottery ended in 2012 and after that jerry and marge would play the lottery no more they'd grossed nearly 27 million dollars from nine years worth of playing the lottery in michigan and massachusetts that's right 27 million dollars and guess what they just made even more because they've sold the rights to their story and it will actually be coming out on paramount plus starring brian cranston and even annette benning from captain marvel that's right you're gonna see a film on this bad boy but we made it first so ultimately yes this is a lesson in determination a lesson in chance and a lesson in extracting any loophole you see fit whenever you enter into something that looks like a game of chance remember there are always odds underpinning them take a roulette for example a classic game of pure chance you've got a 1 in 38 chance of getting 35 times your bet but you also have a 37 in 38 chance that you'll lose your bet entirely yes if you play a few times you might come out with a massive profit which is great and very lucky but play it out a thousand times and the statistics of those odds mean you will always come out worse this is called the house edge and it exists for every single game you can look it up it's very interesting these sort of small mathematical margins underpin almost all random chance games which turn a profit from casinos to pachinko machines and even loot boxes you may win or you may lose on a small scale but unless your game is designed by the michigan lottery association the house always wins at a large scale and the players always lose except on that one fateful day when jerry discovered that he was born a winner so there you have it ladies and gentlemen this has been a fantastical look into effectively how to always win the lottery these types of situations with lotteries and other gambling space scenarios do actually still exist in the world we live in today many of them are just simply not talked about or hidden away or just so stupid sounding that no one would ever discover them but they exist and they're out there and maybe after watching this video you might go and discover some of your own the moral of the story is to always look at the odds of something before you do it because that way you'll ever know if you're almost guaranteed to lose over time or guaranteed to win but yes if you enjoyed today's video and you like discovering more exploits that exist in the world around us then why not consider subscribing that way you get notified as soon as we discover some wonderful game breaking exploits and we actually have some coming up a few for youtube which are absolutely broken want to know how to increase your viewership by over 400 times well um we found a way so yes i'll see each and every one of you in the next one have an absolutely lovely day my friends as always of course a massive thank you to each every one of our amazing patrons whose names are listed on screen now look at these majestic sausages thank you so much for your generous patronage and if you sat there wondering what video you'd like 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Length: 21min 33sec (1293 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 04 2022

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Thank you there's a local lottery place that works like that model and the rate of winning is 1 out of 29