[notmytarga]

20 yrs ago in the Virginia lottery a group of speculators bought just about every combination ($7.5 mil if I remember right, when the payout got to be maybe $40 mil. They sent people around with $10,000 cashiers checks and a box of prefilled slips to run through. Imagine the organization to make that all happen. Some numbers weren't grabbed because some outlets had other customers who wanted to buy tickets - imagine that!

The tough part was - now that they had the winning ticket in a poorly secured lock up, the top dogs had to hire security and find the ticket themselves. It took weeks, with the chance that the ticket wasn't purchased afterall.

Here's a bit about it:
Group Invests $5 Million To Hedge Bets in Lottery - New York Times
Lottery Investors Unsure If Jackpot Was Virginia's - NYTimes.com
The connection is assumed - but not confirmed.