Column Chronicles: Successful lottery player reveals how to win

Successful lottery player reveals how to win

Frank Cotolo
August 12, 2021

Jay Spiveroni is not his name. It is the name this multi-winning lottery player has asked us to use in this interview. Jay wins lotteries anywhere he plays. He once won six weeks in a row, making him so rich he decided to tell others how he does it. I spoke with him in an undisclosed coffee shop in an undisclosed state of the U.S. at an undisclosed time.

ME: Tell my readers the process you use to come up with winning numbers.

JAY: It's mathematic, a system I thought up myself.

ME: That's amazing.

JAY: It's more amazing than you think, since I never did well in math class and before I began winning lotteries I couldn't balance my checkbook on my head, no less get the numbers straight.

ME: Then how did this system come to you?

JAY: The first time I won with it I didn't know it was a system. I just played with some numbers and when I won, I went back and saw that what I did at random worked, so I tried it again.

ME: What did you do?

JAY: It was a Pick Six, so, you know, I had to come up with six numbers from one to sixty. I took my birth date, my address number and my Social Security number and added them. I took that number and divided it by three - because I have three brothers - and I used the six digits from that.

ME: If I were to do it I would take twelve, add eight, put five, six and nine, plus the nine numbers in my SS number and not divide it, right? Because I have no siblings.

JAY: Yeah, that should work.

ME: I came up with eighty-nine.

JAY: Then you can only play a Pick Two.

ME: The sibling thing threw it off?

JAY: For you, yeah. Why not divide by three anyway.

ME: Then I come up with two, nine, six, six, six, six.

JAY: Okay, those are your numbers.

ME: But four are the same number.

JAY: See what I mean? It's crazy.

ME: You won with the same numbers each time?

JAY: No, the second time I did it I added my shoe size.

ME: Why your shoe size?

JAY: I needed extra numbers.

ME: What should I add to replace the three sixes?

JAY: What three numbers do you have related to your life?

ME: How about my car's license plate?

JAY: There you go. Use them.

...to be continued.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.