After years of work, mathematics researchers have answered a mysterious half-century-old riddle. Is there a lottery ticket that always wins? That’s the popular version of a theoretical conundrum posed ...

A SAVVY brain and a perfect number formula was all it took for a maths whizz to win the lottery 14 TIMES – until his luck ran out. Desperate for cash, Romanian economist Stefan Mandel, now 84, found ...

It’s an annual ritual in Michigan: The state proclaiming how much cash the lottery is pouring into schools. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer recently announced that for the seventh year in a row, the lottery ...

When investigative reporter Lawrence Mower decided to dig into public records for the winners of the Florida Lottery, he noticed an intriguing pattern. Over a decade, a few names kept popping up as ...

As lottery jackpots climbed to new highs earlier this year, including the Powerball’s historic $1.5 billion jackpot in January, followers of Salil Mehta’s blog began writing him to ask if there were ...

My print column this week examines the math of the lottery. A government-run gambling game may indeed be a tax on people who are bad at math, as mathematicians, T-shirts and bumper stickers suggest, ...

A mathematics professor says there is only one way to improve your chances in Thursday night's $100 million Powerball draw, ...

Americans spend tens of billions of dollars on government-run lotteries each year. But as income inequality widens, low-earning households spend a disproportionate amount of money on lottery tickets, ...

Whether you believe lottery is a game of luck or chance, there is no denying that whenever you hear of someone random winning a jackpot, you have wistfully wished lady luck would shine as easily on ...

Watch the video to find out how the lotto whizz's elaborate - and legal - scheme got him the jackpot at an overseas lottery A SAVVY brain and a perfect number formula was all it took for a maths whizz ...