Billy’s Beer and Wine was just your regular run of the mill store, with decent sales, but nothing spectacular. However, everything changed when Marjorie Selbie, a septuagenarian from Michigan walked into the store and started a spending spree on what looked like a regular lottery game. Before we get to telling you more details, note that a ticket for this particular game, the Cash WinFall, costs $2. Lottery numbers

In just 3 short days, Marjorie Selbie spent $307,000 on lottery tickets for this game alone, while her husband, Gerald, was at a similar shop, spending just the same. Together, the couple spent $614,000 on more than 300,000 lottery tickets. The thing is that the Cash WinFall game has been around for about 7 years, and its big jackpot ($2 million) was won just once in its history.

However, the couple, which own a gambling company named GS Investment Strategies, managed to find out a secret: every trimester, the Cash WinFall becomes a sure thing. A glitch in the rules ensures that whenever the jackpot reaches its maximum and there is no winner, the non-jackpot prizes increase dramatically. A statistics institute stated that whoever invests at least $100,000 in lottery tickets will get massive profits. Lottery checker

So as the time period becomes favorable, a group of “smart investors” (some of them trained MIT scientists) practically assume control of the game. There are three groups of lottery players, the Selbie couple owning one of them, which have managed to win 1,105 out of 1,605 Cash WinFall prizes in May.

“Cash WinFall isn’t being played as a game of chance. Some smart people have figured out how to get rich while everyone else funds their winnings,” Mohan Srivastava, a statistician from MIT, stated. Srivastava became a public figure after publicizing a way to exploit a Canadian scratch game. Lottery winning numbers

Nobody can say for sure how much the three lottery groups managed to win, because the lottery doesn’t follow up on winnings smaller than $600 and because lottery players have 12 months to collect their winnings. However, Marjorie and Gerald Selbie won about $1 million to date, and the sum could grow a lot more in the near future. Srivastava stated that any smart gambler who purchases 200,000 lottery tickets for each favorable time period in one year has the chance to make a $1.4 million profit. And that’s without ever winning a jackpot.