As I understand scratch off games, only limited numbers of tickets are printed for each game. Winnings are published. A devout player could notice many retailers were out of tickets for that game and that the 5 million dollar one had still not been sold yet yet. Nothing nefarious about it.
I have an app that keeps track of how many winning tickets remain for each game and then adjusts the odds of winning accordingly.
Professional lottery players would develop a sense of patterns. He would know, for example, if a decent sold in one county, it’s highly unlikely the grand prize is that county. He’d just work on eliminating counties until he has a few that he has to comb.
I don’t know about other states, but in Texas there can be games by the same name that look identical, but are different game because the game number is different.
Absolutely right. In Georgia, our lottery site lists how many of each top prizes there are and how many remain. They also announce sun setting of games. Combine that with the fact that you barely see a game anymore and the odds shift substantially.
He turned a sucker bet into a decent odds bet based on publicly available information.
The “hunch” part about location is silly though.
You’re just using common sense and logic to support your theory but we have conspiracies, jealousy and suspicions on our side.