Colorado Lottery Investigates 21-Time Jackpot Winner

Krupa says he searches for "winning numbers" on the Internet, then fills out thousands of playing tickets by hand. Store clerks say Krupa has been known to buy thousands of dollars worth of tickets a week.

Well, there you have it. He probably spends more than he wins.

I use a lottery program, like today it pick the 4 digit box with a five nuber pick. So for $5.00 bet I woul have won either $100.00 or $200.00 if I had of played.
It has picked the 4 digit straight with 5 number pic which would have paid either $2,600.00 or $5,000.00 for $5.00 bet. But that's 5 numbers out of 10,000. I have better luck with dreams or remote veiwing.
But it does not always work out I forget number to play, or don't remember to play number saw.
Had dream mother and friend gave me number 5020, played two days third day mixed in with Mega numbers but it hit straight on 4 digit that night. What was really stupid is that when went up to play mega, someone else had played 5020 the same night and left number 5020 laying there, I looked said oh that's my number and played mega lost, that guy won $10,000.00 on 5020 now talk about dumb right in my face.
Plus they say your not suppose to use psychic to gain money I say the heck with that, but it does not always work out right. I was in full lucid at lottery store and I ask for the numbers print out for next day, I think the guy said if I didn't get out of store he was going to call the psychic cops.

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It is said: "The lottery is a tax on the mathematically challenged."

Anyone who gives more than a few moments of thought to any sort of system to win the lottery needs to review their statistics class.

The numbers are picked on random. The only way you could gain an advantage is to be on the inside and rig the system. (say, fill each container with the same number ball). But that doesn't happen, the system is thoroughly inspected and is not rigged, and it doesn't matter if you pick your mother's birthday and wedding anniversary or let the computer choose for you, your chances of winning the jackpot are still 1 in 195,249,054.00 for Powerball and 1 in 175,711,536 for Mega Millions.

For those who did not take the above mentioned statistics course, that means that, on average, you need to purchase 195,249,054 Powerball or 175,711,536 Mega Millions tickets to win 1 jackpot. So unless your anticipated winnings, after taking the cash settlement, and after all taxes, are greater than $195,249,054 or $175,711,536, respectively, you are statistically better served saving your money.

Of course, there's always that 'chance', right?

Hey where is Brandon the time traveler when we need him.

I'm sure he has a system that works.

Don't blame him even if he is scamming , good luck to him, over here in the UK the chance of winning the bog standard lottery is 14 million to one, whereas the Eurolottery is 74 million to one....
And as for names I call it the 'stupidity tax' you gotta be stupid to pay it as the government takes a huge chunk out of the total money the lotto people get , ok so the 'winnings' are tax free , but then your charged tax on any interest earned when its in your bank.

Besides the 'eurolotto' I think is a scam bigtime as there are never any winners in the UK and it doesn't say what country it went too.

There was a few tenders out the last time the contract went out to run the lotto here and the one that won it was the only one to say " sure we'll give the government tax on the money" , all the others ones that put a tender in were all going to give any profits to charity, Guess why they didn't get the contract?????

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reply to post by please_takemyrights

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You are correct, it is random. But I have notice that within the last 6-8 drawings, several of the numbers seem to keep reappearing.

Guess everybody just has that hope to come up with the winning combo no matter what method you believe in.

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Yep.. I read the article after I made my post.. It's probably because of buying so many tickets. Although that doesn't mean that my theory isn't possible.

There is a place in Wisconsin called the miracle mile. There along that stretch of road, there have been several winning powerball tickets sold, over a year or two. It had people wondering what was going on there.

Off topic but still on gambling. What could the odds be that a couple wins in the thousands every time they go to a casino, and play the same slot machines every time. I've seen a guy win several thousands of dollars in the last couple of weeks on one slot machine, all the while none of it taxable, because the jackpot has to be $1,200.00 or over to be taxable. I've never seen a machine continue to pay like this particular machine does, but only that guy wins on it every time he plays it, and it's several times per week. It's a nickle machine.

The machine he plays does not shut down for hours at a time. A few days ago, he was up $300.00 in ten minutes, and within an hour, he was up in the thousands.

By the way, this guys wife won $50,000.00 in a promotion.

Besides if this guy pays thousands of dollars he has more chance of winning, so for example the UK lotto 0 14,000,000 to 1 , if you paid to play for 1000 tickets your chances would be 14,000 to 1?
the more you play , the more you'll pay, the more you'll get paid
I know before anyone slates me , the chances of winning are small but at least if you won thousands you put a few more quid in wouldn't you in teh hope that those few more win you more, thats gamblers greed for you...

Yes is somewhat radom but laws of probability still apply.

There is no system to winning the lottery - short of finding defects in the materials used to do the drawings (which is very rare)

Numbers do very unusual patterns sometiems - and I see it all the time in the work I do.

In college I lost a lot of money mis-understanding this fundamental concept - when some very unusual groupings occured as the Roulette tables I was playing at.

(I also failed a statistics class that same semester - the irony was not lost on me)

So if someone, or a group of closely related people, seem to win more than their share - thats is a normal function of random number grouping.

Starting your own business or entrepeneurial venture (while occasionally risky) will almost always prove much more worthwhile and profitable than gambling.

I would suggest many ATS members here look into finding new/additional cash flow avenues - rather than sitting around hoping for the power of divination.

That was a version prototype of my system. The alpha versions of my computer program that I wrote in C++ took all the data for the past ~20 some years and performed statistical and other algorithmic calculations on individual numbers, patterns of numbers, difference, sum, etc... and thousands of different types of comparisons - any and all that you can think of... The FL lottery winning numbers are listed back into 88 on their website, btw. Each run of my program took around 6 months, and at the beginning, I could only see that the correct numbers were calculated long after they had won.

It wasn't until about 6 years into refining the program, comparing virtual models, and isolating discrete patterns that I noticed something spectacular.

and.....

don't leave us in suspense.

I bet he hasnt spent $158000!! Wow this is incredible luck.

My lotto prgram pick the evening 3 digit straght in 10 numbers that means had I played $10 dollars I would have won eaither $291.00 or $500.00 for ten dollar bet.
It picked the 4 digig in 70 so for $70.00 I could have won either $102.00 or $204.00 .
I didn't check rest, I just played Mega Millions tonight the night I win $16,000,000.00, must keep postive thought pattern.

Oh just so I told you the program is Lotto Pro free download for 15 days then its $40.00 for year, it's good program but think you also need luck.

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I won 18 times in a single year on pick 3 here in GA. That included one night that I kept seeing the number 666 everywhere, on a car tag, my change at the grocery, the number of my reciept at Long John Silver's, and finally I asked for a quick pick and it gave me 666. I played it 4 more times, spending a total of 5 dollars, and won 2500.00, or 500 for each ticket. The other numbers I played were my mother and fathers birthdays.

Numbers are drawn at random. There is no influence upon numbers drawn from one week to the next. It is a gambler's fallacy to think that patterns will be broken or sustained for any length of time.

Take a simple class in Combinatorics and Permutations and you'll see that the more combinations that you buy, the greater your chance will be to win the lottery.

Most people will never win anything significant in their lives. While some people will win a few substantial jackpots. That's the nature of statistics and standard deviations.

Given enough data, in thousands of years from now, you would see that the distribution of numbers drawn would all tend towards the expected theoretical mean.

Many people don't understand that short-term wins are common, but eventually, if you play long enough on a rigged game, you WILL lose.

Never spend money to buy a lotto system that someone has created. It's not worth it. Never believe anyone who tells you that their system 'works'. It doesn't. If you don't believe me, then I can sell you a system that's based on balanced incomplete experimental block designs... donate $1000 and I'll let you have it!

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Was that 4/3/2004 , 4/18/2004 , 9/2/2004 I'm not in Ga that 666 came in alot in 04 in Ga, should try 333. you did good on 666. 777 just came out here.

The "Rain Man" of lottery.
What's he do? count balls instead of cards?

It seems that an investigation is moot. How could anyone cheat?
Loaded Lottery balls?

What a waste of more tax dollars.

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Well I want win and I want to cheat I want play a million dollars on one four digit number then bankrupt my state, Then when they could not come up with 5 billion I would own state.