Statistician Outsmarts Lottery Game

A Canadian geological statistician named Mohan Srivastava discovered a flaw in Ontario's Tic-Tac-Toe scratch-off lottery that let him predict winners with about 90% accuracy. However, he found it to be less profitable and enjoyable than his consulting job as a statistician; he instead informed the gaming commission, which pulled the game the next day.

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