I would wager to bet that winning the lottery would be a dream come true for just about anyone.

But as the saying goes, to win the lottery, you have to play!

I hate to break it to you, but the odds of getting struck by lightning are about four times higher than the odds of winning the lottery.

However, with that said, I did stumble across a very interesting story from Business Insider about a guy who won the lottery more than ten times.

How is that even possible?

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Guy Who Won The Lotto 14 Times

So this insanely lucky guy is a Romanian Australian economist and has won the lottery 14 times!

His name is Stefan Mandel, and I'm betting he has a laundry list of new relatives and friends, if you catch my drift.

Mandel does have a pretty cool story, the initial lottery win provided the money needed to get his family out of the communist regime where he was literally only earning $88 a month.

After he and his family settled in Australia, Mendel continued his impressive winning streak.

How To Win The Lottery

According to Mandell, this is how he has accomplished winning the lottery 14 times.

Mandel's method involved buying bulk tickets and printing them at home.

Unfortunately, this method is no longer feasible due to updated regulations in both the United States and Australia.

6-step Formula Used To Win The Lottery

  1. Calculate the total number of possible combinations. (For a lottery that requires you to pick six numbers from 1 to 40, that means 3,838,380 combinations.)
  2. Find lotteries where the jackpot is three times or more the number of possible combinations.
  3. Raise enough cash to pay for each combination. (Mandel rounded up 2,524 investors for his push to win the Virginia lottery.)
  4. Print out millions of tickets with every combination. (This used to be legal. Now you would have to buy the tickets right from the store.)
  5. Deliver the tickets to authorized lottery dealers.
  6. Win the cash. And don't forget to pay your investors. (Mandel pocketed $97,000 after a $1.3 million win in 1987.)

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