Broken Lotteries | Wired Science

"Lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math" just got more literal.

Looked more into Cash WinFall, looks like they are trying to fix the lottery and are blocking gamblers from buying more than $5000 of tickets per day per terminal: <a href="http://www.masslottery.com/about/news.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.masslottery.com/about/news.html</a>

So Srivastava could determine a winning-vs-losing ticket by looking at it. <i>What lottery out there</i> lets you examine and play with tickets before purchasing them? Are you allowed to return an unscratched ticket for a refund?

I thought the winning tickets would be decided first, <i>then</i> filled with winning/losing numbers and symbols, specifically to avoid situations like this.