It’s common knowledge these days that the odds of someone winning the lottery are pretty miniscule. An often-cited statistic is that you’re more likely to be struck by lightning and die than choose ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

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 ...