A Romanian-born Australian mathematician who won 14 lottery jackpots before eventually filing for bankruptcy has revealed the equations he used to beat the odds on numerous occasions.

They don’t plan to buy any more lottery tickets, they have said. Math professor Peter Rowlett of Sheffield Hallam University, meanwhile, ran the numbers to calculate the odds of turning a profit ...

Stefan Mandel, a Romanian-Australian economist, developed a formula that's allowed him to win the lottery 14 times. It's a six-step process designed to hack the system.

A SAVVY brain and a perfect number formula was all it took for a maths whizz to win the lottery 14 TIMES – until his luck ran out. Desperate for cash, Romanian economist Stefan Mandel, now 84… ...

A SAVVY brain and a perfect number formula was all it took for a maths whizz to win the lottery 14 TIMES – until his luck ran out. Desperate for cash, Romanian economist Stefan Mandel, now 84… ...

Eventually, Mandel targeted a lottery in Virginia, where the rules around picking six numbers between one and 44 meant they only had 7,059,052 – apparently, this was a good thing.

A total of 70 balls went into a drum for a lottery drawing. Five were pulled out: 56, 66, 67, 68 and 69. Maybe you noticed there are four consecutive numbers within the five.