The most interesting facts about lotteries

Probably, everyone at least once thought about how good it would be to win a large amount in the lottery. This allowed us to solve numerous problems and fulfill our dreams. In fact, the lottery has been attracting public attention for a long time, because history knows successful examples of how you can win. And we need to parse some of the stories in more detail.

The first official lottery in Europe

Sources say that the first official lottery was held in 1466 in Europe. Jan Van Eyck’s wife held a lottery on the 25th anniversary of his death. The bottom line was that you can win a cash prize, and the proceeds from ticket sales will go to charity.

And in the future, this type of fundraising has become quite common not only in Europe, but throughout the world.

Voltaire became famous thanks to the lottery

Few people know that one of the geniuses of his time, Voltaire, became famous precisely because of the lottery. He really wanted to become a winner, and that is why he began to study the statistics of this game. Together with a companion, they found a loophole in the game device. The bottom line was that the authorities simply did not calculate the prize and offered a lot of money. In fact, everything was very simple, just the maximum number of lottery tickets was bought, and this will bring a lot of profit. For one person, the profit was more than a million pounds.

Group of winners

Once in Australia, a whole group of enthusiasts decided to win the lottery by any means. And even a syndicate was created, where a total of 5 million lottery tickets were purchased, and the number of combinations eventually exceeded 7 million. As for the amount of winnings, it was 27 million.
Of course, the organizer found out about how the money was won, so it was decided to come up with restrictions on this kind of action. But they never managed to come up with anything, only those buyers who took only 1 lottery ticket were in priority.

Knowledge brings victory

One of the professors of statistics at Stanford University won the lottery 4 times. This is the luckiest woman who got 5.4 million the first time, so 2 million, the third time 3 million, and finally 10 million. They even tried to catch her trying to hack the system, but this did not lead to anything.