At 06:42 PM 6/25/2004 -0400, Robert B. wrote:

>There was a group that did buy up every possible lottery ticket here in
>Kentucky back in the early 90's.  They did it a couple of times before
>anybody caught on, always only when the lump-sum payoff was enough to cover the tickets plus a significant profit.  Once the lotto figured it out they stopped selling the pre-printed lotto tickets, actually catching the group about 80% of the way through another round of tickets.  The thieves (thinkers?)

I'd go with "Thinkers" on this one, Nobody ever said there was a limit did they?

There's no guaranteed payoff either, since someone else may hit it by chance, and there goes half your money.

Can you imagine the line in the convenience store?

"I'd like one ticket with 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7, another with 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,8....

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