Lottery Winning and Precognition

by Laura De Giorgio on January 18, 2012

Dr. Osis said “I’m intrigued by lottery winners. There has been some research on this and it appears that precognition may play a role in many cases. The person is walking along the street, not thinking of lotteries at all, and then comes a sudden hunch: “I must go into this story and buy a lottery ticket. The ticket will win.” The person buys the ticket and it does win. This seems to be quite common occurrence.”

It is, and there are many strange stories to tell, says Max, and continues to tell a story about a 23-year old Robert Bronson, who felt sure he’d win a special Christmas lottery in Maryland some years ago. Robert bought some tickets, although he had a wife and child and barely enough income to make ends meet. His wife was angry when he came home with tickets, but – as he later told reporters – he felt curiously calm. One ticket bore repetitions of 7, which he considers his lucky number. He felt unaccountably certain this ticket would win. It began by winning him $500 and qualifying him to enter a final drawing, which was held in a Baltimore auditorium.

Just before the winner’s name was to be announced, Bronson stood up. It was as though he had heard his name spoken. People stared at him in silence. Then the name was spoken, and it was Bronson’s. The prize was $1 million.

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Lady Luck, PhD: How Did She Win The Lottery Four Times?

by Laura De Giorgio on August 9, 2011

Lucky lottery winner Joan Ginther has won the Texas lottery four times. What are the odds? Well, they’re somewhere in the range of 1 in 8 septillion. Luckily, she also happens to have a PhD in statistics from Stanford University. The people of Texas chalk it up to good luck and divine intervention. One Minute News correspondent Rachelle Akuffo breaks it down:

Joan R. Ginther, 63, from Texas, won multiple million dollar payouts each time.

First, she won $5.4 million, then a decade later, she won $2 million, then two years later $3 million and finally, in the spring of 2008, she hit a $10 million jackpot.

The odds of this has been calculated at one in eighteen septillion and luck like this could only come once every quadrillion years.

Harper’s reporter Nathanial Rich recently wrote an article about Ms Ginther, which questioned the validity of this ‘luck’ with which she attributes her multiple lottery wins to.

First, he points out, Ms Ginther is a former math professor with a PhD from Stanford University specialising in statistics.

A professor at the Institute for the Study of Gambling & Commercial Gaming at the University of Nevada, Reno, told Mr Rich: ‘When something this unlikely happens in a casino, you arrest ‘em first and ask questions later.’

Although Ms Ginther now lives in Las Vegas, she won all four of her lotteries in Texas.

Three of her wins, all in two-year intervals, were by scratch-off tickets bought at the same mini mart in the town of Bishop.

Mr Rich proceeds to detail the myriad ways in which Ms Ginther could have gamed the system – including the fact that she may have figured out the algorithm that determines where a winner is placed in each run of scratch-off tickets.

He believes that after Ms Ginther figured out the algorithm, it wouldn’t be too difficult to then determine where the tickets would be shipped, as the shipping schedule is apparently fixed, and there were a few sources she could have found it out from.

According to Forbes, the residents of Bishop, Texas, seem to believe God was behind it all.

The Texas Lottery Commission told Mr Rich that Ms Ginther must have been ‘born under a lucky star’, and that they don’t suspect foul play.

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Elderly Couple Finds Loophole In Massachusetts Lottery

August 5, 2011

To gain an edge in poker, a solid mathematical background is fundamental to winning in the long term, but to crack the lottery, it takes a mastery of advanced statistics as proven by the recent winners of the Massachusetts game Cash WinFall.
Marjorie and Gerald Selbee are set to earn millions thanks to a loophole they discovered [...]

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Wanted: R30.5m lotto winner

August 4, 2011

A Powerball player who won R30.5 million only has two weeks to claim his or her jackpot, a report has said.
According to City Press, the millions owed to the unknown punter, who randomly selecting six winning numbers using the quick-pick option, will return to national lottery operator Gidani after 5pm on August 17.
The ticket was [...]

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Big Lotto win for badly-hit earthquake victims

July 21, 2011

A Christchurch couple whose house was badly damaged in the February 22 earthquake have won more than $4.6 million playing lotto.
And the lucky couple have no plans to leave their quake-stricken city.
The man, who wishes to remain anonymous, is a regular Big Wednesday player and checked his lottery tickets during his regular grocery shop to [...]

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Stampede of Lottery Winners

July 21, 2011

Dreams do come true for one lucky lady from Calgary.
Wednesday evening, as the Calgary Stampede Lotteries winners were announced, Kylie Bullen’s name was pulled from a great many, making her the winner of this year’s $725,000 Rotary Dream Home.
Bullen turns 26 on Thursday, so she’s pretty pleased with that timing.
“I’ve never won anything in my [...]

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Lottery Winner Keeps Jackpot News From His Wife

July 21, 2011

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A man from Greenwood who won $200,000 playing the South Carolina Education Lottery didn’t quite believe his good fortune.  He didn’t want to make his name public and didn’t tell about his win anyone, not even his wife.
“I’m going to tell her,” the winner said. “I want to make sure it’s real [...]

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Son prays for mom to win lotto — she does

May 28, 2011

A Long Island man’s faith in God has been restored after he prayed for his mother to win the lottery and, the next day, she did.
Sal Bentivegna jokingly issued a prayer for his mother, Gloria, to win the lottery after she lost money playing slots in Atlantic City.

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Lottery Winner Stopped Breathing When She Realized She Had Won

April 1, 2011

A High Point woman who won $500,000 in the North Carolina Education Lottery said she stopped breathing when she realized she had won.
Sondra Townsend, who has raised her three grandchildren on her own since her oldest daughter died in an accident, said the winnings will give her financial stability in [...]

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How to work with Lottery Winning mantras

March 31, 2011

Beena asks, “How many times a day should I listen to lottery winning mantras?” and “What is the way to make these mantras most effective?”
You should listen to the mantra recordings at least once a day, but for best restults I suggest that you repeat mantras throughout the day, as often as you can, whenever [...]

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