MILLIONAIRE MAKER I’m a mathematician and won the lotto 14 times with a specific strategy – my first win was more than 18 times my salary

A MATHEMATICIAN won the lottery 14 times by creating a specific strategy that beat insane odds.

While living in communist-era Romania, Stefan Mandel crafted a formula that secured a life-changing fortune before earning over a dozen jackpots in a surprisingly legal lottery business.

Mandel was working as an economist in the late 1950s when he began to brainstorm his way out of deep poverty.

He determined that the lottery was the best way to stumble into a fortune that could get him to a country with more opportunities, and started crafting his formula.

Eventually, Mandel discovered the perfect math formula that could predict five out of six winning numbers, Lottery Critic reported.

Four years after creating the formula, he teamed up with three other friends to try their hand at the jackpot.

Mandel was only going for second prize as it required matching five numbers, but the mathematician was shocked when he ended up winning the first place prize.

The total earned was 77,783 leu which Mandel said was about 18 years of his salary.

While this specific formula helped Mandel to predict numbers in Romania’s lottery, he changed his strategy when he moved to Australia.

In Australia, the mathematician gained access to tons of UK lottery options. He saw this as the foundation for a business.

Instead of devising a complex formula that predicted numbers, he decided the best way to up your chances was simply by purchasing as many tickets as possible.

So, he created a lottery business of sorts by taking on investors who would pool money so Mandel’s operation could buy tickets in droves.

After securing a win, he would waltz to the office to collect his prize and divide the winnings among investors and ticket buyers.

Mandel actually approached lottery offices and told them he had every intention of buying each ticket option, and there were no laws in place to prevent him from doing so.

Sadly after his 13th overall win, many laws had been passed that prevented him from continuing his lottery business legally.

This forced him to look at another more liberal county – America.

By analyzing all the different lottery options in the US, he set his sights on the Virginia lottery as there were only 7.1million number combinations.

When the lottery reached $27million in 1992, Mandel’s team sprang into action, and they did so without ever leaving Sydney.

Lotto laws at the time allowed players to print their tickets at home, meaning anyone could effectively play if they submitted the homemade tickets to a convenience store.

To avoid shipping cash all the way to Virginia, Mandel created an account so the ticket buyers could use checks at the stores.

The team worked tirelessly but still faced a massive hurdle.

Despite their best efforts, they missed out on around 1million ticket options.

Luck was still on Mandel’s side though, and his team secured his 14th lottery win.

Not only did they get the $27million but also tons of second and third place prizes, which added up to a grand total of over $30million.

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