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World Luckiest Lottery Winner- Joan Ginther, a resident of America, did her PhD in Maths from Stanford University. He won the lottery four times in 17 years. Many people believe that by using his mathematical talent he had discovered the secret of winning the lottery.
New Delhi. Winning lottery is considered a game of luck. There are only a few people in the world who hit the jackpot. There are some people who keep buying lottery tickets for years, but they do not get any prize. But, hardly anyone else has been as lucky as Joan Ginther in terms of lottery. Gindhar won the lottery four times and won a total of about 21 million dollars. If we look at today’s rupee and dollar rates, this amount is Rs 189 crore. Joan did her PhD in Mathematics from Stanford University. Therefore, many people believe that by using his mathematical skills he discovered the ‘secret numbers’ of the lottery.
Joan’s winning streak began in 1993, when she won her first big prize of $5.4 million in the Lotto Texas jackpot. The world thought it was a coincidence. But the story had just begun. 13 years later in 2006, he again won the lottery for $2 million. While people were still discussing it, two years later in 2008, he won another jackpot of $3 million. The limit was reached when in 2010 he won the ‘Extreme Payout’ lottery of 10 million dollars. Between 1993 and 2010, Joan won a total of $20.4 million in prizes. The interesting thing was that most of his winning tickets were bought from the same shop in his hometown ‘Bishop’ (Texas).
Chances are 1 in 18 septillion
According to mathematicians, the chances of winning a lottery four times that big are one in 18 septillion (1 followed by 24 zeros). This probability is so small that suppose you had to find a specific grain among the dust of the entire universe. Due to this, the market of speculation became heated all over the world. Was it just a ‘coincidence’ or had Joan used her ‘statistical brain’ to crack the lottery algorithm?
Many experts believed that Joan, through her statistical expertise, had discovered the pattern in which bundles of scratch-off tickets were shipped. They probably calculated when and where the winning ticket was most likely to be available. Although the Texas Lottery Commission conducted repeated investigations, they found no evidence of fraud. It was a ‘clean win’ for Joan.
