With friends, he took a huge risk and purchased large blocks of lottery tickets with the combinations his formula has deemed to be most likely - and won first prize.

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 ...

A mathematician has defied the odds to win the lottery a whopping 14 times without breaking a single law. How did he do it? Romanian-born Australian Stefan Mandel used his affinity for numbers to ...

Romanian-born Australian mathematician Stefan Mandel managed to scoop 14 lottery jackpots with his army of investors and helpers by simply buying every ticket.

A minimum of 27 tickets will guarantee a win at the UK National Lottery’s flagship game, the Lotto, two British mathematicians have calculated.

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… ...

Verlyn Adamson said earlier in the week that he's a big fan of math puzzles. He claims he developed a formula for lottery picks, but his winnings have been small until now.