Man Lives Under Bridge for 10 Years to Crack Lottery Code

Malaysia Star ^ | Wednesday, 24 Jan 2018

[nickcarraway]

For ten years, a Chinese man has been living in solitude in hopes that he will be able figure out the formula behind winning lottery numbers.

The 49-year-old man, identified as Wang Chengzhou, has made a home under a road bridge in Chongqing where he spends his time researching the mathematical formula behind the lottery's winning digits, reported local media.

To make ends meet, Wang has worked part-time in jobs at the post office or as a cleaner, according to media reports.

The man had worked at a construction site in Xian, Shaanxi province, but suffered a thigh fracture. After he recovered from the injury, he told relatives that he was going to work at another building site in Yunnan province, but ended up in Chongqing in 2008, reported South China Morning Post.

Despite his 76-year-old mother begging him to return home for the upcoming Chinese New Year, Wang rejected her, saying he would not return until he had "made his mark in lottery research", according to SCMP.

"I have mastered the algorithms of lotteries," he was quoted as saying.

Wang, who spends about 2,000 yuan (RM1,223) on lottery tickets each month, said he plans to write four books on topics of mental arithmetic and lottery codes based on his research.

Sichuan University math professor Zhou De told the Chengdu Commercial Daily that it is "almost impossible" to predict winning lottery numbers in advance.

"Lottery numbers are randomly generated," he was quoted as saying.

[nickcarraway]

[nickedknack]

Won Ding Bat.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

“he plans to write four books on topics of mental arithmetic and lottery codes based on his research”

I’d buy that book from a guy living under a bridge.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

If there have been N lottery drawings to date, and each drawing required selecting M numbers then you can create an equation in 'i' with at most M*N factors and/or sums that will correctly spit out the ith result for all i's from 1 to N.

It would be interesting to see with the i+1 result would be.

[LouieFisk]

“Wang, who spends about 2,000 yuan on lottery tickets each month”
—
Only 2000 yuan? That Way Tu Lo!

[Peter ODonnell]

Here’s my secret formula. Pick seven numbers. Those are bound to be wrong. Pick seven more. Those are also bound to be wrong. Keep doing it until the lottery deadline.

YOU WIN $1.00 or whatever the lottery ticket would have cost.

!!!! WINNING !!!!

[DaxtonBrown]

Actually,if lottery numbers are picked by computer, they are pseudo random and there is an algorithm. Forget breaking it unless you have the seed number.

[I Drive Too Fast]

Wat Went Wong

[I Drive Too Fast]

I’d buy that book from a guy living under a bridge.

Will it be an abridged version or a multi-volume masterpiece?

[21twelve]

Yeah - the guy needs more than a photo of his bed under the freeway. Like Tai Lopeez does - I’m guessing it is a rental Ferrari that he parks in his rambler’s garage and then gives his spiel on growing wealth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LTVf99dM_k

[Daffynition]

Fremont Troll?

[C210N]

The only path this guy has to winning the lottery big-time is to write his book in a way that it becomes cultish for people to read it, and then sell a billion copies (possible in China).

If it takes off as a cool thing to read he wins. He should title the book something akin to “Zen and the Art of Lottery Prediction”.

[a fool in paradise]

Master of Crack

[seawolf101]

Winning the lottery thicket is like finding the correct single tiny piece of sand on a beach while blindfolded. There I solved the code. I should write a book while living in my mother’s basement. I wonder if anybody would buy it then I could make more money than trying to win the lotterty.

[Jonty30]

You wouldn’t be able to pick the seed number either if they are changing so slightly the time in picking numbers.

[Gene Eric]

Can you write out that expression for just 2 iterations of N with M [1..3] ?

[Vermont Lt]

There are more than a billion people in china.

The odds of running into a million nut jobs is extremely high.

[Pollster1]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2023514/Joan-R-Ginther-won-lottery-4-times-Stanford-University-statistics-PhD.html

I will not comment on whether I believe this former Stanford statistician and university professor “cracked the code”, as that might be somewhere on the libel/slander scale. However, I would guess that one can infer the seed by buying a sufficient number of tickets and then matching the tickets in order to the algorithm - and thus find the winning ticket numbers for any batch run of scratch off lottery tickets.

[noiseman]

I often point out to friends that if you want to get a sense of how futile it is to think that you will win the lottery just look at all the times, when there is a high jackpot, that millions of tickets are sold and yet no one wins. I also sometimes mention that the odds of the winning six numbers being 1,2,3,4,5, and 6 (though not necessarily in that order) is exactly the same as for any other combination of six numbers. No one believes that, however. It doesn’t make intuitive sense to them, even though it’s absolutely true.

Even if you had the money to buy all 175 million possible combinations (for Powerball), thus guaranteeing a win, and ignoring the obvious logistical challenges to even do so, it would cost you $350 million ($2 per play). Therefore, this “strategy” would only make sense if the jackpot was higher than $350 million. However, when the jackpot is that high many more people buy tickets, which increases the likelihood of splitting any win with other winners. So, even if you could afford to guarantee yourself a win by buying every number combination, you would likely still lose money (a LOT of money).

[Libloather]

Rots Of Ruck?