Winning the lottery is for the few, but this couple was able to unravel a simple flaw in the games that gave them the opportunity to win, guaranteeing a generous lottery prize.
Meet the incredible story of the couple who became rich by finding a silly flaw in a lottery game
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On any given day, the couple Jerry and Marge, residents of a small town in the US state of Michigan, found a leaflet for the state lottery.
At that time, Marge worked as an accountant and Jerry was a retired engineer who decided to study the probability of the game, focused on winning.
From the logic of the game called “Windfall”, Jerry began to understand how the game system worked. lottery, what would be the probability of profiting from the game and what is the correct way to bet to win. In that case, when the prize reached a certain value, the chances of winning were guaranteed.
So the former engineer realized that even if no one matched six numbers to get the full prize, people who matched 3 to 5 numbers could still receive a prize. With that, Jerry decided to invest and buy about 18 lottery tickets, spending $ 1100 dollars on that first purchase.
Then, using what he had studied, Jerry was able to win $800 by matching 4 numbers. Again, he decided to spend the prize and another $900 on tickets, which resulted in a small win of $1,000 when he matched 3 more numbers.
The couple finally won the top prize with that early win money, and they raked in around $26 million, and unlike most lottery winners, they knew how to put their earnings to good use.
That's how the couple became famous, inspiring a film 'As Chaves Vencedoras', which is available on Paramount+ and Prime Video, and tells in detail the couple's trajectory.
