When Smart People Decode The Stupidity Tax

Courtesy of Freakonomics, I found this fascinating Wired article about a Toronto man who's cracked some of the lotteries being run in North America. He's deduced that the "random distribution" of numbers on the face of those Tic-Tac-Toe scratch cards is not only not random but it also reveals, sometimes with as high as a 90% accuracy, whether the card is a winner or not! Anyone who plays the lottery should definitely read this one!