How To Win The Lottery (By Cheating)

[@thespiffingbrit]

*It Just Works* - Lottery Director Todd Howard

[@leonardgooden4983]

🦂🦂🦂🦂🦂

[@the_luckiest_charm]

ALL HAIL OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR TODD HOWARD

[@chxbbofficial]

yes the words of a true genius

[@sirmicah]

TODD

[@Uzzgub]

A interaction to appease the 6th Chaos God, the Almighty Algorithm, a Comment for the Comment Throne

[@ComicalRealm]

As someone once said: “The best way to become a millionaire by winning the lottery is to start off as a billionaire.”

[@thespiffingbrit]

100% accurate advice

[@andromidius]

Reminds me of a story from 20+ years ago (maybe a bit more come to think of it...) where a company was planning on buying literally every combination of ticket in order to win a huge rollover jackpot. I think they were stopped from doing this, but it goes to show how greedy people can be.

[@AxxLAfriku]

NO! NO! NO! Many people say I am sick in the head. NOOOO!!!! I don't believe them. But there are so many people commenting this stuff on my videos, that I have 1% doubt. So I have to ask you right now: Do you think I am sick in the head? Thanks for helping, my dear rhw

[@callmemackeroni]

@@AxxLAfriku Yes (;

[@AndroidFerret]

@@andromidius i thought before when there are markets with lottery stands offering a car and a lot of other prices ...if you count the whole winning money ..you could just buy all tickets and sell the prices ..

[@oopsydoodle8332]

Man if this guy ever becomes a supervillain we're all doomed.

[@karlhenke91]

"If"?!

[@zerox8830]

he is a brit, he is already a villain

[@boltaurelius376]

Always was

[@artyd42]

Oh it's already too late. You just haven't noticed yet.

[@PrepareToDie0]

*when

[@salted6422]

Here's a HUGE tip for you guys; You can actually just take stuff from a store WITHOUT PAYING and the only downside is that you have to be a bit sneaky about it or else you'll have someone nag at you. It's an incredible trick and in long-term it can SAVE YOUR MONEY.

[@thespiffingbrit]

*Sneak Level 100*

[@theawkwardpotato264]

Everybody uses the barter system when you have a gun.

[@GrandMsterPie]

Or start with I live in California Origin story and just walk right out of the store cause no one will stop you

[@vantablack6288]

just put the bucket over their head. wont notice a thing

[@doomboots]

Too bad the quicksave punch load exploit doesn't work IRL

[@danielwright1950]

Jesus spiff have you considered doing more videos like this I think honestly story time with the spiff would be a great idea

[@nonexistentsquare2092]

yea

[@KryAON]

I love how he used the numbers 4,8,15,16,23,42 for the example 😂

[@MrAtilla187]

Spotted the lost fan :)

[@FilmscoreMetaler]

I've been using these numbers as a user name for the past 18 years and my immediate reaction was "that's ME wtf" until two seconds later "oh, right."

[@Tasmanaut]

I use them when i play keno. Won more times than I've lost.

[@panthakurai5267]

Mmm 😏 Shannon

[@GucciVal]

Everybody loves Hugo ❤

[@thepeacefulnetch]

“Lotteries are a tax on people who can’t do math.” That sentence has saved me a lot of money over the years.

[@robertharvilla4881]

I prefer the term stupid tax. Most stupid people won't even understand there's actual math involved, so the math angle never works. LOL

[@davidtitanium22]

with how they're advertised as "buying dreams", there's an escapism aspect too, for people desperate enough that lottery is their only hope of moving up in the world which makes it more sickening

[@mrspy5736]

So sick, I hated hearing "win the holidays with Arizonas MEGA millions." At work all the time during Christmas time, hoping no one really fell for that.

[@hypnopump]

@@robertharvilla4881"I prefer the term self righteous tax as I know but make no effort to make any change - but GOSH I sure am vocal!"

[@SophiaAphrodite]

They are a tax on the poor and the desperate. It is as predatory as credit cards.

[@justarandompurplefox3243]

As someone who works in a convenience store that sells lotto tickets, I have a deep hatred for lottery and I’m glad someone is talking about how it’s all a scam

[@3st3st77]

Lotteries not being profitable to gamblers is a typical highschool math task. So, ideally everyone who passed highschool should know that. If they won't listen to their teachers, they won't listen to Spiff.

[@martynchannel2983]

Well its massively unlikely for you to win as said in the video 130 odd million to 1 an theres more chance of me having a baby on the moon but i think its worth remembering that the lottery do alot of good with their money and help an awful lot of charities and community groups etc (infact they help every company, group or charity once only thats their rules) and for some people even though the odds are pathetic its just a dream that gives them hope for 1 day having a better life than one that they are deeply unhappy in at the moment. The lottery is big on responsible gambling and have limits of 500 a week which i know is still alot but considering in a bookies some people lose thousands in a day uno. An finally There entire motto is play small dream big, they are literally telling u to not spend alot and just dream big so they cant really be held responsible for those that wanna cheat the system an buy hundreds of tickets an fuck themselves over, The odds are clearly visible for all to see..

[@carlad2640]

Its not a scam. Do you think the couple that won 150 million last week think it's a scam? Playing it every week isn't a good idea though.

[@a.w.1820]

@@carlad2640 1:10

[@ximumn2738]

@@carlad2640 Do you think all the people who have gone into debt from gambling think it’s a scam?

[@talkerteo6628]

I despise the lottery so I approve of this video.

[@thespiffingbrit]

Thats the spirit

[@h-Films]

@@thespiffingbrit h

[@lr514]

@@thespiffingbrit h

[@Oblithian]

h!? There are more random letters now? What will we do when all keystrokes have new meanings?

[@h-Films]

@@Oblithian h

[@hanskneesun123]

Years ago I had three numbers inexplicably pop into my head whilst walking into town, once in town one of the first things I saw in a Woolworths window was a lottery stand, I'd not played the lottery for a while but in the all the times I had I'd been up on the transaction winning £80 on the very first UK draw and over a £100 the following week.. I decided it must mean something and bought 2 lines using the three numbers in each and made up the remaining three with random numbers, to my amazement the three numbers that I chose were the first to be called on lottery night (in the same order!), my £2 investment got me a £20 return. I'm a sceptic and put this down to a mixture of incredible coincidence, my subconscious being swayed by advertising but it still doesn't account for the fact that I never just randomly think of numbers, it baffles me to this day.

[@renkeludwig7405]

This man plays life like a video game.

[@tubey84]

"EuroMillions jackpot of £109.9m won by UK ticket-holder." Congrats Spiff.

[@whitewolf..]

Did he really win?

[@infinitelp7796]

@@whitewolf.. Yes

[@Nathan-lt6bw]

@@whitewolf.. no

[@penguinoverlord9994]

I don’t know who to believe

[@deezman4206]

@@whitewolf.. yes

[@tristanbuckner1170]

Just waiting for Spiff to drop his inevitable “reality is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits” where he noclips out of this dimension and becomes an unethical, tea-drinking deity.

[@xavmanisdabestest]

I don't know if you meant unethical or ethereal but both work.

[@tristanbuckner1170]

@@xavmanisdabestest oh I meant unethical. I mean, I know you’ve seen his city development videos?

[@iconofthicc6086]

@Quark L+ratio+didn’t ask+I hate the antichrist

[@masterlinktm]

@@iconofthicc6086 he is spam, i have seen at least 20 copy/pastes of him spamming

[@tandemcharge5114]

Be careful, it might lead into the Backrooms

[@Solike99]

Spiff, I cannot stress enough how much I love your channel. Your voice, your humour, your editing. Men each video is a master creation. Good job indeed my brithish friend.

[@joshuapatrick682]

Here’s the thing, random chance is not a factor in most casino games. They are programmed to lay specific payback scheduled. Usually it’s somewhere in the tune of 95% for slots and 70-75% for table games. The shuffler shooting out those cards can put them in any order it likes. Please keep that in mind.

[@57thorns]

It depends. The electronic games like slot machines are quite literally allowed to cheat. The casino leave nothing to chance there. As for card games like blackjack, they are slightly in favour of the house, unless you keep track of the cards. And while card counting is not illegal, and I believe they _are_ required to pay you any winnings even if "caught", they are allowed to ban you for the future. Which is how they turn a game of skill to a game of chance, and keep their winnings. Other games like Roulette are completely "fair" in that there is no cheating allowed. The house edge is the green 0 (and for American casinos the green double 0). There once was a group of people that studies the roulette tables at a casino for days and found statistically significant anomalies, and they manage to win a lot of money. After this, the roulette wheels are rotated regularly, so neither a player, not the house, can figure out how the wheel is unbalance (because it will still be slightly off balance).

[@Migustinder]

I don't know what casino you go to but I have never heard any table game having lower than 90% rtp. Where I live the black jack has an rtp of 99.xx% usually the slot machines have a lower rtp than table games.

[@krayze144]

How would the shuffling machine know which hand it is giving to the dealer? if you open/close boxes just as the hand is about to dealt the outcome of the hand will change. It would require the machine to have a camera that can recognize how many boxes are in play. I used to work as a dealer btw and have wondered myself if the shuffling machines could be used to fix the game as they are unquestionably a lot more profitable for the casino than hand dealt game, but i just don't see how it could be done. The thing with the machines is that the pictures and aces are constantly going back in thus giving higher chance for the dealer to have a blackjack or for the punter to get a picture when taking a card on 12-16 and you can't count the cards either obviously, there's no good shoes or bad shoes as when you're playing a hand dealt game. Don't play side bets should go without saying, they are there to increase the house edge.

[@krayze144]

forgot to mention there is a wheel inside the machine with compartments that it slots the cards into then it spins round and deposits them seemingly randomly into front of the machine for the dealer to pull but the thing is it deposits about 10-15 cards together at a time and the order of those cards can't be changed. You could open up the machine and take out the wheel with the rest of the cards in and there is still those 10-15 cards there ready to be pulled, it can't change which card comes out. An experienced dealer can pull multiple cards per second, the mechanism of the machine can't deposit the cards that fast. But please don't go to a casino with any expectations of winning money, you will end up in a hole you'll never get out of.

[@clericofchaos1]

Every once in a while...Spiff releases a video that makes me think he's going to be arrested. So far, he's been fine. Let's just hope he doesn't stumble across some exploit that actually causes him to be arrested and/or assassinated so we can keep watching his wonderful videos.

[@blahajenthusiast101]

I’m sure the court system is perfectly balanced and he will get away with it

[@clericofchaos1]

@@blahajenthusiast101 Fair enough.

[@aaronimp4966]

"Police are a perfectly balanced system with no exploits."

[@Xenoun]

Next up: "The petrol engine is a perfectly balanced machine..."

[@FirstNameLastName-il8ev]

He'll find an exploit in the system to get him out of arrest better than a lawyer

[@deadtomatoe8949]

Honestly, this is more a Video Essay than an "this is perfectly balanced" video. And I really do love this. I wish more of these "people exploited stuff" videos, it was really entertaining

[@thespiffingbrit]

Thanks friend. We enjoy trying to show the world ways in which real world exploits exist and can be found. I mean we use methods like statistical advantage in video games too.

[@Wyulliam]

@@thespiffingbrit loved the ones about pizza hut and mc donalds too. We demand more

[@professoroak7545]

@@thespiffingbrit yes I love these videos.

[@randomstuff-qu7sh]

I forget the title of the book, but it was a non-fiction account of how a group managed to win at one of the video poker style games at multiple Vegas casinos by obtaining a scrapped (but still functional) machine, discovering a pattern to the randomization, and using that pattern to essentially predict when machines of that same type were going to pay out. They eventually got caught and blacklisted from the casinos, but only because they got too greedy.

[@MM-Egz]

I get InternetHistoriana vibe from this, and i love it

[@echokon]

I'm very very happy Spiff talked about the idea of "The House Edge". It's very important to be aware of

[@echokon]

@Quark Cool story broski, not sure what you're on about in regards to a gambling/lottery video. While I don't agree with all of your points, skepticism to make sure you're not being conned is important. Like how our protagonists, in this video, were skeptical of the idea of "you'll always lose against the lottery". They did the math to see in this very thin case, they could beat the odds.

[@matt_9112]

@@echokon it's a bot, literally commented under every comment under this video, reported like 8 times (no time do all). Let's see how perfectly balanced KZbin's reporting system is, I guess.

[@echokon]

@@matt_9112 Odds are that you're right

[@nuggetbiscuit6988]

@Quark Just stick to your "cool femboy facts" Clearly you're just angry because even you don't truly understand yourself, lmfao

[@serotonin.scavenger]

@Quark free will is a myth, religion is a joke. We are all controlled by something greater-MEMES! The DNA of the soul!

[@doceggfan]

There was a lottery game a few years back in Australia that was based on picking the first 4 numbers in a draw in the correct order (Lotto Strike). Once the jackpot exceeded about $5 million, it was possible to buy every single combination of four numbers for a price that was less than the jackpot, which would guarantee a win. There was a syndicate that exploited this for a while before the Lottery changed the rules to cap the jackpot at $2 million

[@coder0xff]

Always thought gambling was damn stupid, as early as when my parents took the family to Vegas. It was an educational experience, being a young teen watching grown ups throw their money away.

[@devforfun5618]

i experimented with poker in college, we played with cents just for fun, i would start with 1$ if i lost, i lost, if i won i would keep the 1$ , and kept playing until i lost all i got, which would happen more often than winning the table, it was addictive enough even without that chance of getting rich like people in vegas one time i got a royal straight and kept raising, because of course i would win, only for the other guy to have a better straight, that is when i stoped playing

[@KaijuAKD]

Gamblers don't play for money, they play for that millisecond before the result is shown. That's why they play until they lose everything.

[@MaksKCS]

@@devforfun5618 a royal straight is the best straight you can have

[@devforfun5618]

@@MaksKCS but there are 4 suits, mine was hearts, his was spades and spades wins

[@cannotfigureoutaname]

@@devforfun5618 That's quite unlikely, maybe you were tricked by the one who shuffled the cards? A while ago I was messing around with my friends to the point I wasn't allowed to shuffle the cards anymore.

[@abstractassassin4919]

Hey Spiff! Great video, reality is of course perfectly balanced. Edit: Jerry evidently drinks Yorkshire tea gold, a man after Spiff's heart evidently.

[@SirGarthur]

I love Yorkshire Gold

[@abstractassassin4919]

@@SirGarthur Good man.

[@derptyderp5287]

@Quark No life after death? But loads of people have died... And we're all still alive... Aren't we? Oh noo.

[@FunnelCakeRyan]

@Quark k.

[@nameisrubin191]

Love that LOST reference at 2:32 ! 🔥

[@FakuedGuela]

2:31 Love it! Thank you for showing these exact numbers 😊

[@Bulletstorm.arrowproof]

Lost

[@noamytrdhffhrsvnr2516]

Stefan Mendel is a mathematician who won the lottery 14 times, by just filling all the options, and wining millions (couldn't find the exact amount of money he earned, but he made huge amounts of profits). Because of him in Australia there's a law against filling all the options. He reached a new level of exploiting

[@nq3036]

The highest badge of honor, having a new rule made because of you.

[@bonbonbonbons]

​@@nq3036"See, because of me they have a warning." - Homer Simpson

[@Darkrye324]

Honestly this might be your best video spiff. Bravo!

[@PuppyLuvU2]

Spiff: I lost 40 pounds! American viewers: Good job staying healthy! :)

[@Peterpiperspickledpeppers]

Ah typical American joke, go do something else for once

[@jb_types_stuff]

@@Peterpiperspickledpeppers go touch grass

[@liamveezee]

@@Peterpiperspickledpeppers Go get a sense of humour

[@hypnopump]

@@jb_types_stuff Grow up

[@Peterpiperspickledpeppers]

@@liamveezee wouldn't call that a sense of humor, most overused joke in the world.

[@2buxaslice]

This isn't even the only time something like this has happened. There are stories from many different countries about lotteries that were beaten. I'd love to see you do more videos like this covering those other lottery exploiters as well!

[@AmiiboDoctor]

@Quark touch grass

[@masterlinktm]

@@AmiiboDoctor he is spamming it just report him as spam

[@Andytlp]

@Quark youre out of line but not wrong

[@Retanaru]

The best part of the whole story is that despite regularly buying hundreds of thousands of tickets, Jerry still never won the jackpot.

[@williaml840]

One thing to remember is that his numbers were computer generated so he undoubtedly had a large amount of identical tickets which would reduce his chances of a jackpot - and the average number of tickets needed to get a jackpot is still way higher than the amount he ever bought.

[@TechyBen]

@@williaml840 Also, buying every ticket guarantees you winning the lottery, it also guarantees you get paid less than you won, if your purchase is massively larger than others playing. As the house always skims it's profit/costs/taxes off the top, you have to balance your investment vs everyone else playing (including the house!).

[@wyrdean_9649]

Neat, that makes at least two PZ players who watch the brit

[@dannydaw59]

@@TechyBen That's right I didn't think about the taxes. Jerry might be getting back a 20% profit but taxes on the winnings are more than 20%.

[@TechyBen]

@@dannydaw59 I think that's why they do a LLC or similar. Set it in an investment fund, pay less taxes, then "draw down" a wage or investment payout at lower tax rates over time.

[@sephiroth1985102514]

I've said for years that because of the way the lottery is built, the only real way to see much of a return, if any, was to spend an exorbitant amount of money. Great video Spiff. Also, I learned on a local radio show one afternoon that in order to GUARANTEE a lottery and Powerball win here in Florida you need to play right about 3.2 MILLION different combinations. I'd like to see those MIT kids try that. Lol.

[@TheBlackWaltz]

So. Most lotteries are designed in such a way that you will always end up with less money than you spent. I just went through some in my state and checked out the odds. To win 5k, you'd have to spend 320k. No amount of spending more money will EVER let you overcome that rate. I actually saw a single one where if you did spend enough to hit it mathematically, you'd earn 10 million over 20 years, but you'd have to spend 7 million on tickets. If you asked for the lump sum, you'd most assuredly end up with less than 7 million after taxes and all that. So it's not really useful. If you have 7 million dollars, you could easily earn more than 3 million over 20 years in many other ways of investing that money. The only reason why it worked for this particular lottery, is because they fucked up the math passed those thresholds. Most don't have those thresholds.

[@kylekataryn3454]

the mob tried that. They found they had neither sufficient time, nor smurfs to make that large of a purchase or time to print that many tickets. Plus it's a logistical nightmare to store and transport, and count all of those tickets. in the end, if you're very, very lucky, and noone else wins the jackpot you might get 6% ROI. selling liquor and whores is more profitable.

[@ohn9ne]

Sir, it's a bit dangerous to buy that many lottery tickets. Brian Cranston: I am the danger.

[@DaBeast34]

At this point, Spiffing Brit has advanced so far that his next exploit is going to be exploiting gravity

[@Th3BlackLotus]

Jumping?

[@acctsys]

That's plumbing, sewage, hydroelectric dams, irrigation IRL.

[@ltntwafflz9043]

I mean, physics is kinda all about getting around gravity and using it to your advantage. Not gravity specifically but forces in general. Sorry to say, but there's kind of an entire field of science dedicated to this.

[@MJCaboose5akaKirby]

So, dams?

[@spring5385]

I feel like we're only a month away from Prime Minister Spiff publishing "Democracy is a Perfectly Balanced Form of Government"

[@hindumuninc]

Could you imagine how funny this video would have been if Spiff had actually won like 30 million euros out of nowhere? "I'm going to keep doing this because it is fun, but I will begin paying my interns... hahaha, just kidding."

[@robshnob123]

2:34 loving the Lost numbers recognized them instantly! Those will never leave my head :D

[@AllTheOthers]

This video was amazing. A history lesson instead of a gaming video. I greatly appreciate this. I'd like if you did more of this style of video.

[@gupadre8255]

No

[@itsjustatemp-1642]

@@gupadre8255 yes

[@gupadre8255]

@@itsjustatemp-1642 no

[@TechyBen]

Spiff: "Jerry was being perfectly morally neutral" Jerry: "When neutrally evil slips by, because as it should be, it's impossible to detect!"

[@PatRiot-]

I’ve watched at least 10 of your videos and just realized #10 had a 5 seconds ad for a cup in it. Respect, Britt!

[@Sarah-j8q8d]

Even if someone breaks your heart, there is always someone willing to mend it.

[@thjacobi2]

Some heroes are born, some are made, but only one is Spiffing

[@Groovewonder2]

I like this historical game-breaking content. It's like a mini-doc is Spiff style.

[@mojosulo]

As someone who is re-watching Lost after many years... I appreciate you

[@BEFTEX_OFFICIAL]

This type of content is amazing I dig it. Hope you can keep investing into these heavily researched exploits!

[@Grautfyrsten]

Ah yes, the good ol "real life is perfectly balanced with no exploits"

[@AKA253]

I loved the movie based on this couple, I’m already a Bryan Cranston fan but I thought the movie “Jerry and Marge Go Large” was great and the real couple was even greater. The actors actually met with their real life counterparts and spent time with them talking about their reputation and relationship. Very fun stuff.

[@GalliadII]

I spend the last 2 weeks by making money on the stockmarket by exploiting it. so, yes. I liked this very much.

[@systemspecchecker]

I've been waiting for this for so long. Spiffing brit is finally going to break the system.

[@angrybox4253]

@Quark NERD

[@Ankibank2000]

Spiff: "i don't believe in luck" Spiff literally 4 seconds later: "Now luckily..."

[@noahkleppolsen9465]

i like how he's recording to make this a tax write-off perfectly balanced indeed

[@rileysenn5644]

Omg! I love the extremely obscure reference to lost in the lottery numbers!!

[@AsahiStuff]

I spent about an hour and a half reading about binomial probability, and probability theory after watching this video, I loved these in high school, thanks! :D

[@CaptNSquared]

Imagine setting up a lottery and deciding you don't need to hire a statistician or calculate expected returns

[@eridanus6206]

i like how spiff is getting closer and closer to just comitting straight up crime

[@terrorhuhn9192]

spiff 2030: how to get away with murder (and the police is helping)

[@northstar6920]

And yet here you are... telling us about it... instead of being on your luxury yacht in the middle of the atlantic swiming in your extravigant imported tea pool, I feel so blessed.

[@gotdangedcommiesitellyahwa6298]

I love how despite that the odds remained the same on paper, Spiff said a different number each time. Is your tea laced?

[@stupidoldgamer]

I won the UK lottery a long time ago by getting a list of all the winning numbers and getting the average of the most popular numbers then putting 5 tickets down. Won a tenner! That was the first and last time I played the UK lottery.

[@lordbonney9779]

An amazing English chap. Because it’s not cheating until you post a video on a famous platform explaining how you did it!

[@samirelhage1318]

I don't believe in luck but I believe in my own stupidity -the spiffing brit

[@kylergeston]

*Thank you for the great video!* I just saw the movie 'Jerry and Marge Go Large' (which was great by the way) and watching this just video completes the unanswered questions I had. Got to give Jerry credit for finding a loophole and capitalizing on it. Best part was that it was all legal... not like some people that are scammers and crooks stealing peoples hard earned money. I only wish I could find a loophole... maybe next lifetime.

[@johnfsenpai]

The rolldown gimmick was basically trickle down economics

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

*He's entering the real world.* *I TOLD YOU FOOLS TO CONTAIN HIM!*

[@keenansisson211]

You’re one of the only Brit’s I like, and I love you.

[@martinkemp1884]

As spiffing as you may be you still pronounce 'thousand' with an 'f'. Great work. Rule Brittania!

[@GummieI]

Imagine if Spiff somehow had won the jackpot with the tickets he bought, wonder how this video had turned out instead? xD

[@flatlandergarage9764]

My local gerocery store finally got my order of Yorkshire Tea. I've never had it but I'm doing this for you Spiff.

[@supernathan94]

It's nice!

[@seanphurley]

Wont slag off yorkshire tea on this channel... but if you want the best tea you've ever had, try Krokos Kozanis Tea if its available in your country No association with me, just really unique and tasty teas

[@flatlandergarage9764]

I live in Canada, I will go down to the shops and see if I can find it!

[@Bladeofwar94]

19:00 can confirm as a dealer a LOT of people blow stupid amounts of money at the casino. I personally gamble, but I budget it as a loss and make sure I can take the hit before I go to the casino.

[@averybertram9832]

I like the lost reference, pretty confident to use those cursed numbers in a for profit video.

[@benjames9202]

story time with spiff is the hangover cure idk I needed

[@officialnucky]

I remember the Euro millions got to a point where if you bought every combination of numbers you would be a millionaire from the winnings You just needed several million to buy all the combinations

[@hayokamikaze5896]

Makes me wonder if Spiff will ever do a Magic: the Gathering is Perfectly Balanced video. On the other hand if he wants to keep his hobbies and work separate that's perfectly valid.

[@averyboredmanalsoaweeb320]

I knew it... At some point he would find exploits for real life. Soon enough he is going to discover the exploit for inmortality and strenght.

[@zcnxsz]

@Quark Shuuush

[@biomancer3166]

@Quark Everyone should report this guy's comments for hate speech. Kick them off the platform

[@Emilia-y3f]

No matter the ending is perfect or not, you cannot disappear from my world.

[@superjackzy]

That was a really fun and interesting video! I liked how You were talking about the story of exploiting the lottery, You should do more videos like this.

[@swivvy3037]

Love the real world videos! Thought you just did videos like "hey I found a glitch... Lol...." But this was amazing I laughed so hard at the edit of Jerry popping back up with his own company

[@TheKyleBrah]

I love these blogs about people exploiting various real systems that are perfectly balanced!

[@jonathanlehmeier4226]

It’s always nice to be so early that the number of Likes is bigger than the number of views - truly perfectly balanced

[@Usedsuperagent]

As my highschool history teacher once said "the lottery is a tax on stupid people"

[@blizzaricity7521]

The saddest thing about the students winning 700k in winnings is that it’s probably not enough to pay off their debt

[@SsubSsandwich]

If I won the lottery I would buy some beautiful delicious Yorkshire tea

[@antipainK]

Gotta love those Spiff's exploits xd

[@worldlinezero4783]

Spiffing Brit dodging fraud lawsuits like he's Neo

[@stewartgames6697]

Another example of this is scratch off tickets. If scratch offs were truly random, then there's the risk that they would print off far too many winners and fail to make a profit. So there is a system that picks what numbers appear where in a scratch off game, it is just usually pretty complex mathematically to keep people from discovering it. But from time to time people manage to do so and once you know the system you can just win every single scratchoff ticket. There was a retired math teacher in Canada who basically did this as a hobby - he'd figure out what system they were using, win enough to break even (typically you have to buy a lot of tickets at once to discover the pattern), then write the lottery company to tell them that he cracked their system and need a new one. He was playing the lottery like how other old people play sudoku or crosswords.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

But remember, the more money poor people toss in the pool, the more money we can pretend to give to the schools

[@moosestache1769]

Public school funding per capita in the US is more than it has ever been. Yet the results continue to get worse.

[@TensaiHSenpai]

I swear the intensity just keeps escalating next thing you know, spiff is going to teach us tax evasion

[@Seth90]

Han Solo: "Never tell me my odds!" Spiff: "Well, that would be financially irresponsible..."

[@theemeraldking9]

2:30 I like how you used the numbers from LOST

[@ArcticWolfGod]

New type of content? I'd definitely love to see more like this.

[@miloshilic2523]

I love how he used the numbers from the side of the bunker on Lost as an example

[@SeehorseC]

I love how he used the numbers from Lost :D

[@Dan-ft4pu]

I love these stories. More of these stories please. You get a like sir 👍

[@moony8305]

This man will one day evade taxes legally

[@deathhog]

the most depressing part about this video is that MIT students needed to do these lottery tickets by hand, and did not create a program to create the permutations required. seriously just needed one guy that knew how to write in C or Java.

[@davedaveson6279]

This is the one we’ve been waiting for boys 😂😂😂

[@CED99]

Spiff, doing the lottery wrong - you should totally have put £1.4 million into the lottery obviously!

[@serotonin.scavenger]

This feels strangely like an Internet Historian video

[@mritryhard6226]

I love the number used for the example lottery numbers. great lost reference.

[@brennanmerritt9878]

Dont usually comment but love this vid keep ‘em up you’re doing absolutely fantastic work, both you exploiting and others exploiting

[@edgarasklisys2827]

Lol that “lost” refrence 4/8/15/16/23/42 made my day

[@agreedydragon]

Indeed, I was hoping someone else got that too.

[@jansenart0]

A 20% return doesn't cover lottery winner taxes unfortunately (which are a thing in most areas of the US)

[@TechyBen]

Yeah, IIRC the three organised winning pools aimed for much much more than 20% returns. If they got less, there may have been provisions for tax offsetting to reduce it (delayed pay out, or payments to charity etc).

[@goodname6997]

I love how the spiffing brit is slowly crossing over the line into fraud

[@PineappleForFun]

In Nate Silver's The Signal And The Noise he has a section on how casinos would take in money even without a house edge in the odds because of the difference in bankrolls. The house has an effectively unlimited bankroll, so no matter how bad of a losing streak they have, they'll always be able to continue gambling and eventually revert to the mean. The player has a finite bankroll, so there will always be a point where if they lose enough they have to stop playing and will be unable to revert to the mean. In a game of true coin flips the house accumulates money.