The man won the lottery 14 times because he was good at math, the lottery company had to change the “rules of the game”
Lottery is considered a game of chance, according to the Lottery Critic, the odds of one person being able to win the jackpot are approximately 1 in 300 million. Thus, the dream of changing life overnight thanks to a lottery ticket seems impossible for anyone.
However, there is one man who won the lottery 14 times without using any tricks or tricks, all the result of meticulous study of the laws of series of numbers in many years. five.
The man in question is Stefan Mandel, a Jewish economist who grew up in a slum in Romania. It all started in the late 1950s, when Mandel decided to leave Romania to improve his life through lucky lottery tickets.
Build a “property” with the lottery
Starting with his knowledge of math, Mandel spent 4 years researching and finally found a formula that could correctly guess 5/6 numbers of the winning ticket. He combined with a few of his people to test the formula and achieved unexpected results, they won the first prize right the first time.
Image of Mr. Mandel calculating combinations of numbers. Photo: ATI
The value of the prize at that time was 72,783 Romanian Leu (equivalent to about 370 million VND), equal to Mandel’s total salary for 18 years of work. The money was then divided equally among the associates, but it was enough for Mandel to fulfill his wish to move to a new land.
Around the 1980s, Mandel and his family moved to Australia because living conditions in this country were not too expensive and it was convenient for him to naturalize. After officially becoming an Australian citizen, Mandel was able to buy a British lottery and start a “property” with his lottery playing.
In addition to finding another formula that fits the lottery rules in the new country, Mandel also tries to buy as many lottery tickets as possible through “recruiting” more people to participate in the plan as well as building a well-organized “executive” team.
Participants are located all over the country, they will buy lottery tickets and send receipts to Mandel’s party to receive the prize. This form of activity was completely legal at the time.
During his time living in Australia, Mandel won 12 straight times and each time Mandel won, the government and lottery companies had to add new rules to prevent his actions.
Specifically, they stipulate that a person or a group of individuals cannot buy too many lottery tickets in the same drawing. Mandel and his team managed many times, but in the end they had to choose another market to continue.
Boom in Virginia
The target that Mandel aimed to then was the lottery market in Virginia, USA because the lottery ticket prices here were the cheapest in the area and the number of combinations needed to be calculated was less than elsewhere. A special thing in the regulations on selling lottery tickets in the state of Virginia at that time was that players could print their own lottery tickets at home and bring them to convenience stores to pay without any barriers.
Like fish in water, Mandel then used more than $60,000 to print more than 7.1 million tickets and cooperate with shop owners to be able to buy lottery tickets in bulk. In the end, Mandel went on to succeed for the 14th time and won a jackpot worth up to 27 million USD (more than 600 billion VND).
Mandel’s image in the newspapers at that time. Photo: The Hustle
Before Mandel’s “win,” the Virginia lottery set up an inspection team to verify whether his winning ticket was valid. However, they did not find any signs of violation from Mandel, so they only had to accept the award.
Mr. Kenneth W.Thorson, the representative of the Virginia Lottery, also praised Mandel’s perseverance and methodical work with the team. However, he did not forget to express his hope that Mandel would not repeat this action a second time.
Later, all 44 states that issued lotteries in the US had to enact laws to prevent a repeat of “Mandel’s strategy”.
Mr. Ken Thorson spoke about Mr. Mandel’s award. Photo: Lottery Critic
The following days
After that, Mandel’s life still had many ups and downs, he continued to be investigated for the legality of buying lottery tickets and went bankrupt in 1995. In 2004, Mandel was sentenced to prison. 10 months due to fraud in Israel and now have returned to Australia to live peacefully.
Currently, Mandel’s method is no longer effective as many new laws are enacted and the way to buy lottery tickets becomes more diverse and controlled. However, his story is still enough to attract people because despite relying on a game of chance to change his life, Mandel always works seriously and fairly.
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