A New Jersey group called Rook Texas bought all 25 million possible ticket combinations for a $95 million Texas Lottery jackpot in May 2024, spending $25 million in a single day. They won, but faced an 8% chance someone else had the same numbers. After taxes, they netted about $57 million.
This mysterious group from New Jersey, they bought every lottery ticket combination to guarantee themselves a win. Here's what happened. In May 2024, the Texas Lottery jackpot was absolutely massive. It was $95 million. But everyone knows that lottery tickets are an idiot tax, except, well, these guys did the math. They discovered there's 25 million different combinations of numbers and each sequence only costs $1 to play. So they formed an LLC literally called Rook Texas, basically Scam Texas, and kept their names anonymous. My bet is it's a hedge fund. Then they spent $25 million $25 million to buy every combination in that week's drawing. The problem? How do you physically buy 25 million lottery tickets? It turns out Texas had just launched online ticket purchases. When Rook Texas bought millions of tickets in a single day, the lottery commission in Texas said, "Sure thing, here you go." The only risk left? If someone else bought the winning numbers, they'd have to split the pot with them. But mathematically, there was only an 8% chance of that happening. In the end, these guys won, and they walked away with $57 million after taxes. Get the full story
