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 ...

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 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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — For all the anticipation about whether someone will finally snag the gigantic Mega Millions and Powerball jackpots, the games come down to two things: simple math — and very ...

A four-time Texas lottery winner’s timing is priceless. Joan Ginther, 63, has been dubbed “the luckiest woman on earth,” having scratched her way to four jackpots worth a total of $20.4 million.

"Which is the most immoral," Governor Robert Bentley mused philosophically to the press last week, "buying five lottery tickets with money you earned or allowing a child to die?" A state lottery in ...

A group of 30 current and former employees of a Kentucky middle school who won a $1 million Powerball jackpot hid the winning ticket in a math textbook. The educators refer to themselves as the "Jones ...

Proposed legislation in the General Assembly could mean a larger share of education lottery proceeds for the Wake County Public School System. Proposed legislation in the General Assembly could mean a ...

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 ...