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: The process was grueling, involving driving across state lines, spending days printing hundreds of thousands of tickets, and manually sorting them for winners.
: Unlike typical lotteries where the jackpot grows indefinitely, Winfall had a "rolldown" feature. If the jackpot hit $5 million without a top-prize winner, the money "rolled down" to lower-tier winners (those who matched 3, 4, or 5 numbers). Jerry and Marge Go Large
Jerry and Marge Selbee, a retired couple from Evart, Michigan, successfully exploited a mathematical loophole in state lottery games to gross and net nearly $8 million in profit over nine years. Their operation was entirely legal and relied on "basic arithmetic" rather than luck or fraud. 1. The Mathematical Loophole: The "Rolldown" : The process was grueling, involving driving across
The operation was eventually exposed in 2011 by a Boston Globe investigation, which discovered the Selbees and a separate syndicate of MIT students were dominating the game. Jerry and Marge Selbee, a retired couple from
: Jerry calculated that during a rolldown, the expected value of a $1 ticket rose above $1. By buying tickets in massive quantities—often $600,000 or more per event—he could mathematically guarantee a positive return.
The couple did not keep the discovery to themselves. They formed a corporation, , and invited family, friends, and neighbors to invest.