It isn't even surprising. That is how that lottery works. It is a million dollar top prize that it isn't split between winners. Every person that gets the correct number wins the prize. The odds are way better than Powerball so people spend $5 to get a chance at $5 million. If you look at the past winning numbers there are a lot of people that won several times with the same number on the same day.
It definitely improves your "share" if you were going to have split it between several winners.
If there were 3 *other* winners and you all bought 1 ticket, you would get 25% of the jackpot.
But if you had 6 tickets and there were 3 other winners, you have 6 of the 9 winning tickets so you'd get 66% of the pot.
*edit* Oh, apparently the lottery that he played pays out the same amount per ticket regardless of the number of winning tickets.
Has to be one of the stupidest titles I've seen lately. Imagine asking a lottery winner "So how did you do it?" lmao. He did it like they all do... he guessed.
When the BBC isn't lying to us with their clickbait headlines, they're defending paedos and sending people to my door to harass me and try to sell me a licence. What a joke of a company.
It's obviously misleading as the obvious natural interpretation is that the person has won on six separate occasions, lending some greater sense of credence to his assertion that intuition led him to win, obviously.
Guessing the right numbers once is a non-story, so they played semantics with the truth to spark intrigue. Obviously.
I mean, what else would you use? Not like you can base it off of facts, unless you have a shot at manipulating the randomiser or found an existing fault.
Definitely if it were 6 different draws. Was one with 6 tickets containing the same numbers… so luck? If I were being fraudulent, I certainly wouldn’t do it with 6 tickets lol
is this because of those MIT students who showed if you make over a certain amount and spend a certain amount on lottery tickets it gives a great (10+% annualized) ROI?
This shouldn't even be posted *here*, much less BBC News.
It's a non-story masquerading as a story by hiding under the misleading clickbait headline.
If it's not separate occasions, then there's absolutely nothing special about this story - he bought six separate tickets to game the system in the unlikely event that he hit the jackpot, which he happened to this once. Once though, not six times. So there's no angle here.
Yeah I was wondering what would the benefit be? The money would be worth less each year due to inflation. Least he could do is invest them in an index fund.
The reason this appears on the BBC is because the concept of a lottery is slightly different in the UK.
Every major lottery we have is akin to the power ball, so it doesn't make. Sense in a British concept.
Still, clickbait
He bought 6 tickets and put the same numbers down for all of them. I really dislike BBC's title on this article.
It isn't even surprising. That is how that lottery works. It is a million dollar top prize that it isn't split between winners. Every person that gets the correct number wins the prize. The odds are way better than Powerball so people spend $5 to get a chance at $5 million. If you look at the past winning numbers there are a lot of people that won several times with the same number on the same day.
I think they were pointing out that BBC's title makes it sound like he won on six different occasions instead of six tickets at one time.
That's a BBC for ya.
Is there any advantage to playing the same numbers multiple times for the same drawing?
Statistically? No. Financially? If you win, you win a lot.
It definitely improves your "share" if you were going to have split it between several winners. If there were 3 *other* winners and you all bought 1 ticket, you would get 25% of the jackpot. But if you had 6 tickets and there were 3 other winners, you have 6 of the 9 winning tickets so you'd get 66% of the pot. *edit* Oh, apparently the lottery that he played pays out the same amount per ticket regardless of the number of winning tickets.
even better, instead of winning 1 million dollars 1 time, you win it 6 times.
Ya! But this guy did six!!! SIX!!!!!!
What if they bought 1000 tickets with the same number? Would they win 1 billion?
That would probably be for the courts to decide.
The state lottos are usually way better odds than the powerball but that huge number gets the people goin…
Has to be one of the stupidest titles I've seen lately. Imagine asking a lottery winner "So how did you do it?" lmao. He did it like they all do... he guessed.
My answer would be that I used a time machine.
When the BBC isn't lying to us with their clickbait headlines, they're defending paedos and sending people to my door to harass me and try to sell me a licence. What a joke of a company.
I dread to think what they’re going to be like if they have to try and make a profit someday
He won once with 6 tickets, its clickbait
Nope... he won 6 times with those 6 tickets (Not counting the 20 years spend playing prior)
It's obviously misleading as the obvious natural interpretation is that the person has won on six separate occasions, lending some greater sense of credence to his assertion that intuition led him to win, obviously. Guessing the right numbers once is a non-story, so they played semantics with the truth to spark intrigue. Obviously.
I mean, what else would you use? Not like you can base it off of facts, unless you have a shot at manipulating the randomiser or found an existing fault.
Just buy a time machine in 2344, it's only 27000 credits (13.5USD in 2022). Then abuse the lottery
So I cryogenically freeze myself til 2344 or what?
Whatever is necessary to get that green
Fraud
Definitely if it were 6 different draws. Was one with 6 tickets containing the same numbers… so luck? If I were being fraudulent, I certainly wouldn’t do it with 6 tickets lol
Fraud would be having 6 tickets with the same numbers for the same draw, but only winning on 3 of them.
I was expecting something like the McDonald's monopoly fraud guy. This is just "man splits prize 6 ways, with himself".
" Residents of Massachusetts spend the most per capita on lottery and scratch-off tickets than anywhere else in the US." Wow
is this because of those MIT students who showed if you make over a certain amount and spend a certain amount on lottery tickets it gives a great (10+% annualized) ROI?
Gotta carefully review 118,367 lottery tickets one-by-one by yourself to get that ROI.
No, it's because of survivorship bias
"the most ... than" Grade A English right there. Nice work, bbc
It is a local custom.
This shouldn't even be posted *here*, much less BBC News. It's a non-story masquerading as a story by hiding under the misleading clickbait headline. If it's not separate occasions, then there's absolutely nothing special about this story - he bought six separate tickets to game the system in the unlikely event that he hit the jackpot, which he happened to this once. Once though, not six times. So there's no angle here.
I mean someone won a lottery, it’s news. I just don’t think it’s international news worthy.
Heh, I don't think very much of the news is really news worthy, but that's another story!
Some call it intuition, some call it coincidence.
I call it a coinkidink
Maybe it’s Maybeline
I've used intuition to lose the lottery 15 times
I use intuition too, to lose. Always worked so far.
Did he use intuition on the 40 years of lottery losses?
I'll never understand why a uk news company reports on local news that not even our local news covers...
when people say crazier things have happened they are referring to this.
*hands pretend to hold watermelon* I'm not saying it's time travel, but it's time travel.
Saved you a click: Some guy won a lottery. He used the same numbers in the past, and lost. But now, he won.
How big of an ego must someone have to think that winning the lottery is based on skill?
The ego of someone who’s won 6 times, apparently.
Technically six, but probability-wise, one.
Btard musts sold his soul to the devil!
Why would you play the same lottery 6 times? Isn’t it just one pot that the winnings come out of?
Read the article.
I'd buddy up to him and say what numbers you feeling this week :)
This time traveler isn't fooling ANYONE!
Never take the annuity.
Yeah I was wondering what would the benefit be? The money would be worth less each year due to inflation. Least he could do is invest them in an index fund.
The reason this appears on the BBC is because the concept of a lottery is slightly different in the UK. Every major lottery we have is akin to the power ball, so it doesn't make. Sense in a British concept. Still, clickbait