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?) (un)fortunately had the winning number already though.  I think
>the major problem with actually doing this is filling out enough tickets in
>the short time between the jackpot growing large enough and being won.
>Apparently the tickets used to be procured in a pre-printed format which
>made this easier somehow.  I'm sure someone else could explain it better, I
>just read about it in the paper over half my life ago.
>
There's nothing inherently wrong with what they were doing.  The hazard
is always that other groups will do the same thing forcing them to split
the jackpot.  That'll take the wind out of their sails.  Lots of times
these jackpots grow large enough to justify such an attempt and lots of
times they are won by multiple winners.

Dave

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