Column Chronicles: Successful lottery player reveals how to win, part two

Successful lottery player reveals how to win, part two

Frank Cotolo
August 19, 2021

Jay Spiveroni, multi-winning lottery player tells how he picks his winning numbers.

ME: Jay, as you described your method, it can't possibly work for anyone else.

JAY: Maybe not, but I never said it would work for anyone else. You asked me for my system and I told you.

ME: It shouldn't work for you either because it makes no mathematic sense. You're picking numbers at random, really.

JAY: Hold on there. Of course it's math. There's adding and dividing numbers. What's that, chopped liver?

ME: A winning formula has no random answers. Even the first part of your calculations [adding birth date, address and Social Security numbers] has no basis in any form of arithmetic.

JAY: I said math, not arithmetic.

ME: Same thing.

JAY: I may have to disagree there.

ME: Look, I don't mind if you just tell me you are very lucky and that's how you won all of those lotteries. Those things happen.

JAY: To who? I mean how do you know the numbers you calculated won't win? You haven't even played.

ME: Okay, but how do you know which lottery game to play? There are a lot of them and I can't play a lot of them each day.

JAY: You play which ever you have enough numbers to play. I told you to play a Pick two when you did my method and only came up with two. Then you asked for two more because you had the same numbers and I said make them up.

ME: You told me to make them up.

JAY: Yeah, to play a Pick Six.

ME: So I should play that, the Pick Two with eight and nine?

JAY: Yeah, and if you want to play a Pick Three or Four or Five or Six and you need more numbers, pick any, as many as you need. You don't get charged for picking any numbers, it's your god given right.

ME: All right, well thanks for the interview and let us know how you do in the future.

JAY: You’re welcome.

As a follow up, I followed Jay's directions and played thirteen straight Pick Sixes with my numbers. All of them lost. Meanwhile, I checked in on Jay and he won three giant Pick Six pots in thirteen plays. I told him he must be the luckiest guy in the world. He said, "It's not luck, it's my system."

I punched him in the face and left him where he fell.

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.