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Article Excerpt
Millions of people buy lottery tickets every day, hoping for an instant win by scratching off a ticket's surface to reveal the message that they've snagged the game's big prize, a sum that can reach millions of dollars. Forty-two states have lotteries, but only Virginia has an inquisitive lottery customer who's an adjunct business professor at Washington & Lee University.
Professor Scott Hoover got curious about the odds of his winning the $75,000 promised by the "scratcher" tickets he'd bought. He crunched some numbers, then filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests along with his attorney, John Fishwick Jr. of Roanoke, Virginia,...
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