From the comfort of his desk in the UCLA mathematics department, Skip Garibaldi uses his analytical expertise to help find lottery scammers across the country. Garibaldi, the associate director of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On October 1, 2022, something strange happened in the Philippines: 433 people won the jackpot in the local lottery. For this ...

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, ...

We’ve all daydreamed about hitting the lottery jackpot, but Stefan Mandel didn’t just dream he made it happen, not once, but 14 times. This Romanian-Australian economist turned the lottery into a ...

Americans spend tens of billions of dollars on government-run lotteries each year. But as income inequality widens, low-earning households spend a disproportionate amount of money on lottery tickets, ...

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 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 ...