I've got a system where I never win the lotto, guaranteed. I'm having trouble looking for investors though.

@tjs200

4 жыл бұрын

do you sell life insurance policies?

@LightYagami-wt1jw

4 жыл бұрын

I want 7.1 mil

@diogoalves896

4 жыл бұрын

Are you also a Nigerian prince by any chance

@passdasalt

4 жыл бұрын

@@tjs200 I actually sell 'After life' insurance. For a small monthly fee, I guarantee you will go to heaven. If you don't, you get nearly all your money back.

@LightYagami-wt1jw

4 жыл бұрын

@@passdasalt if I am dead and have no family what will I do with the money I get back if I don't go to heaven

Everything about this, the functionary sashes, the sad slice of bread "sandwich", the style choices, is why I love NPR.

@LightYagami-wt1jw

4 жыл бұрын

NPR is da besht

@ooDirtyMickoo

4 жыл бұрын

women are hilarious XD

@oolavitzoo

4 жыл бұрын

It seems very drunk history ish

@ubuntuposix

2 ай бұрын

I can't get over them saying he initially had "no money", yet he lived in his OWN apartment watching (his) TV, and his friends/family borrows him a lot of money when he asked them.. I wish I had "no money" like him.

This reminds me of the bit from Teller that sometimes the magic trick is that someone put in more work than any sensible person would expect.

@metou3072

4 жыл бұрын

Its impossible to fool all of the people all of the time...only takes 1 person to figure out exactly what is going on....your an idiot if you think that nobody knows that the dollar is being destroyed intentionally...and using fake identities to do it...and of course the purpose of it is so they can create a state of emergency and use that as the reason to impose absolute power under the guise of being done for the best interests of the people...which of course is total bullshit...proof of what has been/is being/going to be done can not be destroyed with everything else...that has been made impossible a long time ago...you are acting like it's not completely obvious that the same exact people responsible for all fake news and fake events are the ones that are letting the world know about it themselves...and you don't do shit like that unless you feel that you will get away with it...but we are aware of how deep the deceptions go and from the bottom up are involved....from local police to the very top...you can't fake news and events without the help of the local government...that is not government...the federal government is going to use this to enact a federal state of emergency...FEMA...money is already fake...that only leaves 1 other possible reason to do it...makes no sense to let everyone know what you have been doing (but not really because it's fake news) if you're goal is that of the fake international bankers...and we know about the many fake identities

@wellesradio

4 жыл бұрын

Look like we’ve got a schizophrenic wall of unreadable text in the comments! I couldn’t make it past “your an idiot”.

@tjs200

4 жыл бұрын

@@metou3072 Right, and where are you getting all of this alleged "secret" information that seems to have escaped the brightest minds among the rest of us?

@rrdgz5355

4 жыл бұрын

Oh! Please save us@@metou3072, you're the only one who knows the true

@octopusph.d7737

4 жыл бұрын

@@metou3072 you said "your an idiot" but i think you MEANT "you're an idiot". and you SHOULD have said "I'm an idiot" since it fits better with the rest of your comment.

There was no math in this video at all, I feel misled.

@mjt1517

4 жыл бұрын

You weren't promised any math. Relax.

@Erik20766

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Taylor but lotteries are based on math so a video explaining how a lottery works should explain that math, and not just go “and then this thing happened”

@knifedreamer

4 жыл бұрын

They said he bought all the combinations lol, you really need math for that?

@igorface09

4 жыл бұрын

@@knifedreamer Of course, what the fuck is that "Combinatorial Condensation" they talk about in the beginning?

@LaPingvino

4 жыл бұрын

@@igorface09 reduce the amount of combinations you need to account for ;)

This is sooooo the NPR version of Drunk History. Also, this needs to be made into a movie.

@clvrswine

4 жыл бұрын

Shut up.

@clvrswine

4 жыл бұрын

Shut up.

@lolgamez9171

4 жыл бұрын

Facs

It's a bit misleading to imply Mandel *lives* on a tropical island. He's *stuck* on Vanuatu because the securities authority in Israel convicted him in absentia of a not filing a prospectus and of fleeing from custody. The first charge is true, but it was selective prosecution by all accounts. The second charge is probably made up, since he voluntarily returned to Israel to be interrogated and then they claimed he tried to escape from their offices when according to him they told him he was not under arrest and he walked out to get lunch.

@sharonsobolewski3707

3 жыл бұрын

PROBABLY!

@romanvssvmromania

2 ай бұрын

he is arrested by the Matrix Police, saw thorugh these stupid lottery systems

The thing is... i don’t understand how there weren’t any duplicates sold of the tickets he bought?

@williamwilson6499

4 жыл бұрын

3:55

@Herogaze

4 жыл бұрын

You split the pot

@krzychuwr

4 жыл бұрын

He was filling the tickets, in some lotteries you select the numbers you pick yourself

@LightYagami-wt1jw

4 жыл бұрын

Who cares

@klikitzsmith8416

2 жыл бұрын

He took that into account, 1 other winner if 2 others then maybe he'd have been stuffed

It is hearing about people like him that gives me hope for the human race. Makes me feel proud to be a Human being. That feisty and devious side of us that says "watch this!"

@flavius91

2 ай бұрын

It’s the hunger that brings it out of you. Being born in a shitty country is both a blessing and a curse.

this is one kind of idea lots of people have, but most dismiss this because it couldnt possible ever work. but then there's always that one guy...

Usually the applicable phrase is: “The lottery is a tax on people who don’t understand mathematics.” But in Stephan’s case the phrase was: “The lottery can be a windfall for those who understand mathematics well enough to guarantee a win.” Of course he wasn’t *guaranteed* a win in Romania, and in Virginia there was a real chance that he could end up splitting the pot with several other winners (and also there was a real chance that the state of Virginia would refuse to pay and the courts would back them up).

@donnymurph

4 жыл бұрын

Lottery winners in the US also pay tax on their winnings, right? Lottery winner in Australia don't pay tax, as far as I know.

@jpe1

4 жыл бұрын

Donovan Murphy I have no knowledge of Australian taxation rules, but in the US lottery winnings are typically exempt from state taxes in the state where the lottery is held; for example, in Pennsylvania a PA resident who won in the PA state lottery would not be subject to PA income tax, only Federal tax. Not the best example because In 2016 PA started taxing lottery winnings, but until 2016 winnings were exempt from PA taxes. If the federal government were to run a nationwide lottery the winnings would presumably be tax free.

Lol playing a Polka styled version of the Tetris theme in the background 0:47 -1:05

He basically waited til the jackpot was at a level where if he bought all the combinations he would be guaranteed a win.

Rest of humanity needs to be on this guy's logic level.

@sharonsobolewski3707

3 жыл бұрын

HOW BOUT JUST HIS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEALLLLLLLY BESTEST FRIEND!!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!! SO WHERE'S THIS ISLAND??????????????

There’s something very fishy about this whole story. I’ve researched and every article I’ve found on the topic just leads you on a trail of other vague articles from which they copied, always leading back to some dodgy website proporting to give tips and strategies on how to win the lottery. I can’t find anything solid on this guy. The facts presented in this video do not, in my opinion, have a solid grounding until you provide your resources. Please provide a link to the article from which you most likely got every detail from.

@randomawsome

4 жыл бұрын

It was fishy when they talked about how he had a formula in the first 2 minutes, never explained what the formula was, and acted like it wasn’t accurate or something. They don’t show anything, but claim it’s true, and we are supposed to believe them because they told us so.

@idkGBT

4 жыл бұрын

just enjoy the video

@randomawsome

4 жыл бұрын

Ferny 1337 Health classes promote false information, and those are state sponsored. Public broadcast shows have consistently been incorrect and still ran. Use The Magic School Bus for example, the prime education show for a long time, and it gets almost everything wrong. So yes, they can get stuff wrong, and they should show sources just like anyone else.

@daniel_a-ir6mc

4 жыл бұрын

everything will be ok , i’m guessing you did no research at all because i found the guys full name (stefan mandel) and theres like thousands of articles about him

@randomawsome

4 жыл бұрын

xx x You didn’t read the comment, did you? Even still, they should provide accurate sources so it is more credible.

commenting and clicking like in the hopes that more quality content like this pipes thru the algorithm

Massachusetts used to have a lottery game with a "push down" feature, meaning that if no one won the big prize for a long time, they redistributed a lot of that money to the lesser prizes. Well it turns out that there are a bunch of people in Mass. who are good at math, so whenever the "push down" feature happened, ticket sales skyrocketed and a few key players/"investors" got rich. The game has since been terminated. I think they now have a law limiting individuals to purchase not more than 10,000 tickets for any draw.

combinatorial condensation is not a real thing. I like how they just gloss over that like oh yeah he figured out how to predict the first 5 numbers but then he just stopped using that for some reason. If the Romanian lottery is like the other lotteries (as implied) it’s not possible to the predict numbers no matter how many math papers you read. Also if you predicted 5 of the 6 numbers the number of combinations would be much less than 1000.

@randomawsome

4 жыл бұрын

They skip over a lot of important information, which makes this entire story very sketchy

So, dude left his family for the life of Lotto?

I missed how exactly this scheme worked. Is it just that, when the prize pot for a lottery gets big enough, the expected return on any ticket for that draw becomes positive? Then you'd be able to buy enough tickets to cover all the possible number combinations, such that the expected return becomes guaranteed (assuming no split pot)?

@given-namesurname5740

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty much

@tasoli

4 жыл бұрын

It mentions he figured out a formula which correctly predicted 5 of the 6 numbers, so there were only a few thousand combinations. Sounded like he earned the majority of his money from that, then raised money through insurance sales to buy every ticket combination in the Virginia lotto in 1992.

@ShainAndrews

4 жыл бұрын

@Jake Shattuck And the logistics of purchasing.

@ubercoolnamehere

4 жыл бұрын

@Jake Shattuck how did they increase the combinations? The amount of numbers pulled?

@madhatterhillbilly4267

4 жыл бұрын

Odds of winning a 6/49 (need 6 numbers between 1 and 49 to win) are 1:13,983,816 {49×48×47×46×45×44÷(6×5×4×3×2×1)}. Not sure if this theory would work with the ticket costs and prize money of some lotteries.

What a story! Love the cucumber.

"Having no money" sounds good if he had a his own home, tv, friends who lend him a lot of money..

This guy is a genius. I love it.

I’m oddly attracted to two of these men.

I won the lottery in a past life, so now all i have to do is built a time machine , go back the the exact date that i won and relive the entire experience ,,,,, forever.

@siriosstar4789

4 жыл бұрын

True, but i was planning on spending the money immediately , which means i would have to return again and again to stay solvent . 😂

Amazing!!

This had some really good visual jokes. $17 fee, cool as a cucumber, etc.

What economist has $584,000,000+ to drop on lotto💩🙄🤣.

@UngovernableU

4 жыл бұрын

A smart one

@saidufofanah2210

4 жыл бұрын

Shit a billionaire can keep doubling his money if he wanted to

This is why math is so powerful. You can guarantee winning the lottery if you know the right math. It’s insane

@williamwilson6499

4 жыл бұрын

And have the capital to buy all the combinations. Not too bad when it’s 7 million to 1, but a different story at 350 million to 1.

@30weekoldwomber61

4 жыл бұрын

A lottery. Not the lottery. A specific one set up just right to facilitate this.

@enlightenedidiot9552

4 жыл бұрын

Not insane. Quite simple...

@30weekoldwomber61

4 жыл бұрын

@@enlightenedidiot9552 and quite simply unprofitable anywhere in the world today most likely

@enlightenedidiot9552

4 жыл бұрын

@@30weekoldwomber61 Yeah the pots get so large in the US that it could still work. But there's a big risk of other winning tickets making the pot split...

I always forget to carry the 1 and lose everytime.

L.E.G.E.N.......... wait for it........ (I hope your not lactose intolerant because the next word is) D.A.R.Y LEGENDARY!!

@devinanderson9520

4 жыл бұрын

This probably works better vocally but here take a like!

@method_uk

4 жыл бұрын

High five 🖐🏻

Idea to bypass an "nobody can buy every combination of numbers" law: Buy every combination of lottery tickets except 1 2 3 4 5 6. Even if that number got picked, you'd barely make anything anyways because so many people pick those numbers that it'd be split between several thousand people.

This reminds me of a story i saw in the local newspaper for my city. We have a dog track here and for all the races of the night if you picked the exact 1st 2nd and 3rd for (i think it was for all races of the night) you would win 25k so one couple decided to pay something like 12k to cover every single combination guaranteeing a win. What they did not take into account what ended up happening is 3 other people also getting it right and having to split the money.

He now lives in New York and is a party promoter and tourism consultant. He lives with his life partner Seth.

That last line was to keep people from trying it but now we have high end computers that can get us to this conclusion, I mean somebody will find a way. Great video though I liked it.

@30weekoldwomber61

4 жыл бұрын

You seem to think so, but why? Is it because they're modern and hi-tech? So they can crunch the kind of numbers the computers of yesterday didn't deal with?

@ShainAndrews

4 жыл бұрын

Ummm you don't get it. Generating every possible combination is not difficult. So what makes this method no longer viable? Lets see you walk through this problem.

I LOOOOVED THE VIDEO! :D

well boys . looks like our next heist

Cool video

Can someone explain to me how he had the physical time to buy those tickets. Like even if u buy one ticket a second, it would still take over 1000 hours to buy each ticket

If he was winning all those monies why was he employed at an insurance company??

@bradpittiful7288

4 жыл бұрын

wasnt he there to get people to invest using their policies as funding the ticket buying

@mjt1517

4 жыл бұрын

You seem to have missed one or two sentences of the narration.

Hey should I read your channel as npr or permutation?

So, now I'm screwed.

Looks like the best way to do it is to really game the system otherwise it is not worth spending on lottery tickets.

I always wondered if you could do this! Not anymore.

how to tell me i'm a loser...watch, listen, and know you can't win the lottery.

Wow.

Bruh u missed a great opportunity for a good joke u could have made the clip in Australia upside down lol

My gosh. Brilliant acting, memorizing camera work. I want more.

Math:100 trickery:1000

Good for him. :)

Voltaire was able to do this too

I wish to be that guy at that time. Combinatorial condensation. " It's 1992, and the Virginia Lottery jackpot has just cracked $27 million. But there's just over 7 million combinations of lottery numbers." That sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Stefan rocking that man bun

Sounds like a challenge

if you didn’t realize.... it was a women that played Stephan in the video.... i don’t know if this is a dumb comment but she made me think she was a dude for some reason the entire vid

but that’s a zucchini

He wasn't buying lottery, but lotto. Lottery defines games with a finite number of tickets, like scratch & wins. So only a finite amount of people can participate. Lotto on the other hand consists of guessing combinations of numbers and an infinite number of people can play it.

Im surprised he was the only one who thought about this. Then again we have billionaires who rig political parties to make laws that favor their special interests and make laws for them to pay less in taxes year after year.

Provide sources

Heard this story from theHustle daily email about a year ago....

@mjt1517

4 жыл бұрын

Well good for you...the rest of us didn't.

I literally fucking know this guy lmfao

I mean... if you buy every lottery ticked you probably gonna win

I didn't understand the computer part?

So Joss from Vox couldn’t make it?

Im GONNA WINNNNN 1 DAY I CAN FEEEL IT

@30weekoldwomber61

4 жыл бұрын

Statistically unlikely

Weird hearing my name haha

Or you can invent a time machine, get the money, then buy a time machine Step 0: travel to the future buy a time machine so you can buy a time machine so you can...

Omgsh 😂hilarious

So he won the lottery 12 times and still needed to raise money for Virginia job? This doesn't add up...

@colechristine7630

3 жыл бұрын

I know of someone who can help u win without any issues

@colechristine7630

3 жыл бұрын

Whtsapp

Paycheck in communistic Romania payed in USD?^^

Ce faci bă Ștefane. Mă întreb dacă mai trăiește

Everyone who's able to beat the lotto, Vegas, etc.......good at math...........I'm out.

Stefan kinda cute tho

average Romanian man

*lives in virginia* ay

Ummm why would he work if he won 12 Australians lottos? Just to raise revenue? Makes no sense...

I still don't get it.

This is impossible, the only way all the tickets could be bought and turn a profit is if the prize money is more than all the tickets bought, and if that were the case than the lottery wouldn’t be making any money for the sellers. This means that the lottery wouldn’t be able to sustain its self. Lottery’s only can give the “JACKPOT OF ONE MILLION DOLLARS!” If the collective people spend more than one million dollars before that prize is won. I’m going to need to see some facts before I’ll believe this.

@winterhug4331

3 жыл бұрын

May 5, 2021 - This dude Stefan cracked the lottery back in the 90's. There were less number combinations and like, the video said Stefan did not buy all the number combinations just enough to win the 2nd, 3rd prizes and so on. It could not happen in 2021 because customers can no longer print their own tickets and the number combinations are now in the millions.

Buy every number combination and you’ll spend more money than the lottery prize

@JamesOGant

4 жыл бұрын

I read that there’s two statisticians who have won the lottery several times. One lives in the US the other in the UK. Both women

@dnomyarnostaw

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, NOW. But back in those days .....

@enlightenedidiot9552

4 жыл бұрын

Nope. At least not then...

😳🏆👌👌👌👌

that's definitely a woman in disguise

*maths

🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴

3:13 Wow. She has really submissive eyes.😍

@lightonstillwaters6789

4 жыл бұрын

Only to you, weirdo! LMFAO! Didn't notice her until you... LoL, perv

Weird RT (on KZread) says "funded by Russian government." Why doesn't NPR say this too: "funded by the US government."????

@randomstuff7962

4 жыл бұрын

Because RT is funded by the Russian government and the US government doesn't fund news organisations.

Only in npr you see a woman playing a man...

Pretty sure Stefan is a chick.

Perfect example of government incompetence

@dnomyarnostaw

4 жыл бұрын

Most Lotteries are run by contractors or licensed gambling companies.

@fiannafailgalway8446

4 жыл бұрын

@@dnomyarnostaw sorry I unclear , I am talking about when they attempted to make laws to prevent him from doing what he did .

@dnomyarnostaw

4 жыл бұрын

@@fiannafailgalway8446 Oh, yes, that makes more sense now. I suppose that since it was such a complex mathematical process, trying to make some laws against it would have been tricky. I must say, I find the whole philosophy of a government running a lottery quite distasteful. It really is a "tax on the stupid", and the idea of our own democratically elected officers ripping off their own citizens irks me a lot.

Why did you make a girl dress up as a dude?

@winterhug4331

3 жыл бұрын

May 5, 2021 - Looks like the person making the video was trying to make if more funny by making a woman dress up like Stefan

JUST NOT THAT ORGANIZED LOOKS TIRING!

@colechristine7630

3 жыл бұрын

Hey

@colechristine7630

3 жыл бұрын

If u want to win Dr osose can help u accomplish that

Spoil market

No numbers or working at all.. and women doing maths problems... sketchy as fuck.

So amusing but not funny

@colechristine7630

3 жыл бұрын

Dr osose helped me won a time ago he can help u

@colechristine7630

3 жыл бұрын

💯💯

@colechristine7630

3 жыл бұрын

Whtsapp

@suryaprakashsuryaprakash7058

2 жыл бұрын

@@colechristine7630 send me your whatsapp number

So today, I learned that Stefan Mondale was a trans man. 🙄

@milk_bath

4 жыл бұрын

John Syzlack this is weak bait. Try harder next time.

Couldn't find a man to play the male character huh?

@TheRolyPoly

4 жыл бұрын

Julia Melfi (NPR's Ask Me Another) played the male character, Stefan Mondale.

@milk_bath

4 жыл бұрын

This is weak bait. Try harder next time.

@user-wickedflower

4 жыл бұрын

Celestial Morning Light prob because the whole thing is bs even down to a woman playing a man..dont lose sleep you not winning the lotto

Why is a woman playing a man?

@milk_bath

4 жыл бұрын

Don't take this weak bait.

Your videos have an incredible low Informationen density per second, which makes them barely watchable... The information density feels LOWER than in your podcasts which is doubly bad since one can drive or clean the room during a podcast which is not possible during a video... =/

@xybur

4 жыл бұрын

Watch the videos at 2x speed.

Why they can't have a male playing the male character? Specially with real live stories. It really makes you think that one day they are going to start lying if it serves their ideology. I am so glad I stopped giving them money :)

@Sjalabais

4 жыл бұрын

Of all the things you've learned here and were entertained by, this is what makes you comment?

@given-namesurname5740

4 жыл бұрын

No, it doesn't make me think that, I don't think it would make anyone think that who isn't insecure

@nateshrager512

4 жыл бұрын

Men have been playing female roles for years. Get over it. Nobody seems bothered by this reversal in this context except you

@milk_bath

4 жыл бұрын

This is weak bait. Try harder next time.

@gajayjay

4 жыл бұрын

Lol who gives a shit. You’re pathetic. This is what people are worried about nowadays? Smfh

The video production level for Planet Money videos offends me. It just makes me think, "is this the actual quality of the show i listen to? Just well-to-doodle New Yorkers that wish they actually worked at Buzzfeed making crap faux-hipster garb video?" NPR, you are better than this.

There is NO Australian lottery - mondell? Method works for forty balls it fails at forty five balls.

Massachusetts used to have a lottery game with a "push down" feature, meaning that if no one won the big prize for a long time, they redistributed a lot of that money to the lesser prizes. Well it turns out that there are a bunch of people in Mass. who are good at math, so whenever the "push down" feature happened, ticket sales skyrocketed and a few key players/"investors" got rich. The game has since been terminated. I think they now have a law limiting individuals to purchase not more than 10,000 tickets for any draw.